Rethinking the local in Indian history / edited by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta and Tista Das.
| Other author | Sengupta, Kaustubh Mani. |
| Other author | Das, Tista, 1979- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Kaustubh Mani Sengupta and Tista Das -- Dynastic times : a chronology for memories in Bishnupur / Paulami Guha Biswas -- Tidal histories : envisioning the Sundarbans, 1860s-1920s / Aviroop Sengupta -- Representations of Manbhum and Purulia in Orientalist texts and the task of salvaging the past of the region / Kalyan Chatterjee -- The small voices of history : subaltern technologists of colonial Bengal / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Pathshalas, schools and the making of primary education in colonial Bengal / Akash Bhattacharya -- Education and training for coal miners : 'ignorance' and 'knowledge' in the collieries of Raniganj and Jharia, 1901-1930s / Sandip Chatterjee -- Military interventions and surveys in southwest Bengal, c. 1765 : Midnapore "frontier" and the wider Jangal Mahals / Ujjayan Bhattacharya -- Rethinking detection in Bengal : police work in the districts and the city in late nineteenth and early-twentieth century / Uponita Mukherjee -- Influx and efflux : a case-study of the Nadia District, 1947-1971 / Subhasri Ghosh. |
| Abstract | "This volume looks at the concept of the 'local' in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents-be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices, or intellectual rhythms-simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the 'local' gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal-mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia, and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes- textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021007731 |
| ISBN | 9780367514136 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032055336 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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