Dictionary Of Historical Places : Bengal 1757-1947
EDITOR – Ranjan Chakrabarti
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- EDITOR : Ranjan Chakrabarti
- ISBN : 978-93-80607-41-2
- Year : 2013
- Extent : xxviii + 686pp
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Dictionary Of Historical Places
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- AUTHOR – Bharati Jagannathan
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Few would recall that Digha, a popular beach resort in West Bengal, was once a small fishing village called Birkul or Beerkul, home to the Malangis who were the traditional producers of salt. Birkul also finds mention in British settlement records. Similarly, Jadavpur (now well known for Jadavpur University), located on the southern fringe of Kolkata, was once a small village called Ibrahimpur. Though Ibrahimpur is forgotten, there still exists a road in the area that bears this name.
Dictionary of Historical Places: Bengal, 1757-1947 is the first of its kind to deal with hundreds of such little known histories. Given the recurring geophysical and climatic disruptions in West Bengal, repeated changes of administrative units and names, lack of collective memory or adequately documented folk sources or oral traditions, the compilation of such a dictionary brings its own challenges. The entries in this dictionary are but an attempt at writing aspects of local history during a particular period, and demonstrate how numerous factors affected the landscape of West Bengal.
The Editor
Ranjan Chakrabarti is the Vice Chancellor of Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. Professor Chakrabarti has taught History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. A former Fulbright Visiting Professor at Brown University, recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellowship at Brown University, Professor Chakrabarti is an acclaimed historian with a keen interest in environmental history and related areas, including the history of science and technology. He is a member of the editorial board of Global Environment (Florence, Italy; www.globalenvironment.it). Professor Chakrabarti’s major publications include A History of the Modern World: An Outline (2012), Terror, Crime and Punishment (2010), Situating Environmental History (2007), Does Environmental History Matter? (2006), Random Notes on Modern Indian History (2006 and 2008), Space and Power in History (2001), Political Economy and Protest (1997), and a coedited volume Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity (2012).
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Approaching the Divine: The Integration of Alvar Bhakti in Srivaisnavism is situated in the context of the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the historical evolution of Tamil Srivaisnavism. This study spans the period from the second half of the first millennium, i.e. the bhakti period to the period of consolidation of the scriptural and sectarian tradition in the first half of the second millennium. Traditionally, the lives of the bhakti saints have been used to understand their hymns. Examination of these hagiographies through the lenses of theology, caste, sectarian conflict and popular legends, however, suggests that these life stories might themselves be constructs of the latter period, and are governed by socio-economic and political impulses as much as by spiritual ones. This work attempts to trace the process whereby a Sanskritic brahmanical tradition and a devotional Tamil folk tradition were knit together, arguing that the ways in which the saintpoets’ hymns were interpreted and integrated contained elements of both continuity and change.
The Author
Bharati Jagannathan teaches History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She writes fiction and poetry, and has authored several children’s books.
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