Tabla de Contenidos: “…and Identity Politics in West Bengal: The Kamtapur Movement in North Bengal -- Introduction -- Introducing North Bengal -- State Policy: The Politics of Land Reforms And Decentralization in Rural Areas -- Who are the Rajbansis? …”

“…We encounter priest-poets in search of munificent patrons, renouncers and yogins who sing about the bliss and hardship of wandering alone in the wilderness, Hindu pilgrims and opponents of pilgrimage, antinomian Buddhist-Tantric poets from Bengal, and the originator of the haiku. We are led along roads travelled by many, as well as paths tread by few…”

“…Whether to propagate 'national' language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls' education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal -- 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India8. Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space; 9. …”

“…The first volume (The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies, 2015) details the army operations, the second volume (The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal, 2018) the navy operations, and this third volume the army air force operations. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry / From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal / The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy / Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century / The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons / The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology / Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500–1800 / Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade / Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India / Glossary / Bibliography / Notes on Contributors / Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 1: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Chapter 2: Dear, departed ones -- Chapter 3: ‘Dreaming Bengal’ -- Chapter 4: Reforming Babu’s Worldview -- Chapter 5: The National Library, Calcutta: A Reader’s Rendition -- Chapter 6: An Anatomy of Work Culture -- Chapter 7: Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist -- Chapter 8: India’s family planning programme: a muddle extraordinary -- Chapter 9: In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama -- PART II: Market, Media, and Development -- Chapter 10: On the Invasion of Neo-liberalism into Development Thinking -- Chapter 11: What education? …”

“…Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inventing Ancient Civilization -- Land and water -- Open geography -- Prehistoric societies -- Ancient transformation -- Inventing empire -- Inventing civilization -- Aryavarta and imperial Bharat -- Imperial regions -- Medieval transitions -- Changing Medieval Territories -- A medieval epoch -- Early medievalism -- Spiritual powers -- Geographies of religion -- Making Hindu societies -- The rise of the warriors -- A medieval transition -- Mobility and cultural mixing -- Urban growth -- Expanding commercialism -- Emerging identities -- Medieval empire, modern threshold -- Indo-Persian imperial society -- Forming ethnicity -- Early Modern Regions -- Ethnic territory -- Family and patriarchy -- Inverting the map -- Eighteenth-century territorialism -- Europeans on the coast -- British imperialism -- Making Modern Societies -- Organizing empire -- Imperial capitalism -- National economy and world economy -- Modern imperial society -- Agrarian societies and imperial entitlements -- Origins of Nationality -- Inventing native society -- Language and authority -- India in Calcutta -- Shaking the empire -- Activism, identity, and nationality -- Creating Nations -- A new twentieth-century landscape -- An overview of empire's end: 1919-47 -- The invention of constitutional identities in the 1920s -- The distinctiveness of Bengal and Punjab -- The reconstitution of nationalities: 1931-47 -- Independence and partition -- Forging national unity -- National Environments -- Buddhist reformers, exiles, rules, and majoritarians -- Christian communities, reformers, minorities, and targets -- Sikh electorate, religion, rights, and territory -- Muslim societies, politics, minorities, and nationality -- Hindu societies, movements, politics, and Hindutva -- Country Profiles -- Bangladesh -- Bhutan -- India -- Maldives -- Nepal -- Pakistan -- Sri Lanka…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Politics of Guilt -- 3 The “Original Sin” -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 The Actual Sins -- 6 Tea for Opium Vice Versa -- 7 Indian Profits -- 8 The Invention of an English Opium Problem -- 9 A First Reflection -- 10 Portuguese Lessons -- 11 Pepper for Opium Vice Versa -- 12 The Bengal Scene -- 13 The “Violent Opium Company” (VOC) in the East -- 14 The Amphioen Society and the End of the VOC -- 15 The Chinese, the VOC and the Opium -- 16 From Trade Monopoly into Narco-State Monopoly -- 17 Tin for Opium, Opium for Tin? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Toward an Acoustemology of the Post-Secula -- 1 Speaking in Tongues in Comparative Contexts and their Digital Soundscapes -- 2 Sonic Ways to Embodied Remembrance: Sufi dhikr in an Italian Roma camp -- 3 Aural Auras of Inner Sounds: Conch Shells, Ritual Instruments, and Devotional Bodies -- 4 Sounding Pain: Public-Private Aspects of Shi‘a Women’s Sonic Practices in Muharram -- 5 Sounds Electronic: New Sonic Mediations of Gender and Spiritual Empowerment -- 6 Sounding Remembrance, Voicing Mourning: Material, Ethical, and Gendered Productions of a New “Voice” in Shah Jo Rāg -- 7 Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces -- 8 Sounding Resilience and Resistance: Tarana Songs of Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia -- 9 Festival as Ritual and Ritual in Festival: Sounding “Exotic Borderlands” in Northern Taiwan -- 10 Music as Epistemic Bulwark in West Bengal -- 11 The Power and the Politics of Embodying Dancehall: Reconciling Sonic Affect and the Religious Self in Singapore -- 12 Performing vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- A.2 Lhan Kar Ma catalogue spells and related texts (ca. 800 CE) -- A.3 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata, Ms. B 5 -- A.4 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 201 -- A.5 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 420 -- A.6 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 1774-3 -- A.7 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. …”

“…With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of 'modern life'. …”

“…Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nectar of the Blue Goddess: A Living Tradition of Soma Consumption In West Bengal, India -- 2. Mescaline, Between Psychopathology and Phenomenology: Sartre and Experimentation In 1930s France -- 3. …”

“…It discusses how the state was breaking its 'effective' link between refugees and citizenship, and how at the same time a second 'affective' border was developing between those living in the border areas, especially in Assam and West Bengal. The book argues that the present discourse regarding illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has a long historical trajectory in which the events of 1971 play a key role. …”
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