Suchergebnisse

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Defining Moments in Bengal: 1920–1947, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, 403 pp. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Colonial State: Theory and Practice, Delhi: Primus, 2016, 228 pp. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P. Behal, eds, The Vernacularization of Labour Politics, Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016, 347 pp.

Namrata Ganneri, Peter Peterson: Founders and Guardians of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai Series. Mumbai: Indus Source Books & Asiatic Society of Mumbai, 2016, xx + 101 pp., ₹125 ISBN: 978-81-88569-99-1 (Paperback).

Ramesh Chandra Kalita, Agrarian Unrest in Assam (Dispur: Ulopi Publications), 2014, 226 pp., ₹500 (hardback).

The East India Company's occupation of Delhi in 1803 created a new situation at the seat of the Mughal court, where the citizens had to treat with an alien government and its native instruments though formally they were still subjects of the Mughal emperor seated in the Red Fort. It is this situation, not so much any religious or communal issue, which explains the riot of 1807 directed against Harsukh Rai, a banker and major agent of the Company.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-Independence West Bengal, 1947–52, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, pp. 246

In the nineteenth century opium was grown for export in two principal regions: (a) Bihar and Eastern UP (in the Bengal Presidency) under British possession; and (b) Malwa (in Central India) within several princely states. This article is mainly concerned with the voluminous records generated by British attempts to curb opium export from Malwa in the interest of their own lucrative contraband trade in 'Bengal' opium with China. It explores what these and other records tell us of Indian participants in the trade in Malwa opium.

SARVEPALLI GOPAL, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, second impression, 2012, 3 volumes, pp. 398+346+336.