The Varied Facets of History: Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Roy

EDITOR – Ishrat Alam and Syed Ejaz Hussain

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Aniruddha Ray retired as Professor of History, from the Department of Islamic History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal. Well known for his profound interest in historical research, Aniruddha Ray has written extensively about Mughal administration, technology and travelogues; the society and culture of Medieval Bengal; the economic history of the Sultanate and Mughal periods; overseas trade and merchants; and the French East India Company on the basis of a fine blending of his knowledge of Bengali, English and French sources. As a mark of esteem and affection, scholars in India and abroad have joined hands to offer him this volume. The festschrift reflects the range of Aniruddha Ray’s interests and influences in some measure.
The theme of the present volume includes the contemporary effort within academia to question the traditional representation of Indian history and the attempts in various areas of study to de-centre the writing of history, and to provide an alternative perspective to the history of fifteenth to nineteenth-century India. In this eclectic collection of essays one can see an innovative approach at work, which raises interesting questions when one situates these ideas and the historical evidence within the big picture, as one moves back and forth between the macro-perspective and the micro-history addressed in most of these essays.
With eminent historians of the subcontinent contributing to it, The Varied Facets of History: Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray throws new light on aspects of Indian history: its sources and their interpretations, the evolution of cultural aspects like languages especially Hindi and Bengali, archaeology, painting, technology, trade and commerce and labour.

The Editors
Ishrat Alam is Associate Professor, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, and Member, Research Council and the Indian National Commission for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He has published numerous research papers on various aspects of medieval technology as well as on the economy of ancient and medieval times.
Syed Ejaz Hussain is Associate Professor in History at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. His specializations include Medieval Indian history and numismatics as well as Islamic history and philosophy. Dr Hussain’s publications include The Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins (AD 1205-1576) (2003) and Mauj-i-Sultani (a memoir of the Mughal Prince Mirza Muhammad Zubairuddin Gorgani) (co-edited with Surendra Gopal, 2003). In 2000, Dr Hussain was awarded the Charles Wallace Trust (India) Fellowship to work on Indian sultanate coins in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In 2009, he became the Sectional President of the Medieval Section of the Pashchim Banga Itihas Samsad.

Contributors
Ishrat Alam l France Bhattacharya l Ratnabali Chatterjee l Kanailal Chattopadhyay. Susnata Das l Nupur Dasgupta l Mariam Dossal l Irfan Habib l Najaf Haider l Syed Ejaz Hussain l Iqtidar Alam Khan l Shireen Moosvi l Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi l Ranjit Sen l Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq l Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui l S. Jeyaseela Stephen

Aniruddha Ray retired as Professor of History, from the Department of Islamic History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal. Well known for his profound interest in historical research, Aniruddha Ray has written extensively about Mughal administration, technology and travelogues; the society and culture of Medieval Bengal; the economic history of the Sultanate and Mughal periods; overseas trade and merchants; and the French East India Company on the basis of a fine blending of his knowledge of Bengali, English and French sources. As a mark of esteem and affection, scholars in India and abroad have joined hands to offer him this volume. The festschrift reflects the range of Aniruddha Ray’s interests and influences in some measure.
The theme of the present volume includes the contemporary effort within academia to question the traditional representation of Indian history and the attempts in various areas of study to de-centre the writing of history, and to provide an alternative perspective to the history of fifteenth to nineteenth-century India. In this eclectic collection of essays one can see an innovative approach at work, which raises interesting questions when one situates these ideas and the historical evidence within the big picture, as one moves back and forth between the macro-perspective and the micro-history addressed in most of these essays.
With eminent historians of the subcontinent contributing to it, The Varied Facets of History: Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray throws new light on aspects of Indian history: its sources and their interpretations, the evolution of cultural aspects like languages especially Hindi and Bengali, archaeology, painting, technology, trade and commerce and labour.

The Editors
Ishrat Alam is Associate Professor, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, and Member, Research Council and the Indian National Commission for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He has published numerous research papers on various aspects of medieval technology as well as on the economy of ancient and medieval times.
Syed Ejaz Hussain is Associate Professor in History at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. His specializations include Medieval Indian history and numismatics as well as Islamic history and philosophy. Dr Hussain’s publications include The Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins (AD 1205-1576) (2003) and Mauj-i-Sultani (a memoir of the Mughal Prince Mirza Muhammad Zubairuddin Gorgani) (co-edited with Surendra Gopal, 2003). In 2000, Dr Hussain was awarded the Charles Wallace Trust (India) Fellowship to work on Indian sultanate coins in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In 2009, he became the Sectional President of the Medieval Section of the Pashchim Banga Itihas Samsad.

Contributors
Ishrat Alam l France Bhattacharya l Ratnabali Chatterjee l Kanailal Chattopadhyay. Susnata Das l Nupur Dasgupta l Mariam Dossal l Irfan Habib l Najaf Haider l Syed Ejaz Hussain l Iqtidar Alam Khan l Shireen Moosvi l Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi l Ranjit Sen l Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq l Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui l S. Jeyaseela Stephen

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface vii
The Historian Of Change
Professor Aniruddha Ray Ranjit Sen
1-17
Darwin And Interpretations Of History
Shireen Moosvi
19-25
Historians Among Archaeologists Exploring Urban Sites Of Medieval Bengal
Ratnabali Chatterjee
27-46
Medieval Archaeology In South Asia
Iqtidar Alam Khan
47-57
Extracting Social History From Documents Of Medieval India
Ishrat Alam
59-69
The Evidence Of Words: In Search Of The Popular In Medieval Bengali Literature
Nupur Dasgupta
71-104
Hindi/Hindwi In Medieval Times Aspects Of Evolution And Recognition Of A Language
Irfan Habib
105-113
Translating Texts And Straddling Worlds Intercultural Communication In Mughal India
Najaf Haider
115-124
Spiritual Dimensions Of Islam Sufism, Sheikhs And Khanqahs Of Bengal
Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
125-158
Representation Of Middle Class Professionals In Mughal Visual Art
Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
159-193
Tazkira-I-Majma‘Ul-Shu‘Ra-Jahangir Shahi A Source Of Historical Information
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui
195-203
Commercial Ledgers And Books Of Accounts Of A Tamil Merchant In Pondicherry (Ad 1736–69)
S. Jeyaseela Stephen
205-213
The Poet And His Patron Bharat Chandra Ray (1712–60) And Raja Krishna Chandra Ray Of Nadia (1728–82)
France Bhattacharya
215-228
The Revolt Of 1857 In Bengali Literature
Susnata Das
229-241
An Encounter With Occidental Technology An Indo-Persian Prince In England And Europe
Syed Ejaz Hussain
243-255
Kutch’s Rich Composite Culture Many Colours, Many Influences
Mariam Dossal
257-270
Assam Tea Plantation Labourers And The Role Of The Brahmo Samaj As Influenced By Dwarakanath Ganguli
Kanailal Chattopadhyay
271-280
Bibliography 281-289
Notes On Editors And Contributors 291-295
Index 297-307

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