
Rethinking the Local in Indian History
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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.
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Tista Das teaches History at Bankura University, India. She obtained her PhD from the Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. She has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research interests include histories of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, migration, resettlement and ways and means of reading violence.
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Part I: Textual Representations, Public Discourses
1. Dynastic Times: A Chronology for Memories in Bishnupur
2. Tidal Histories: Envisioning the Sundarbans, 1860s-1920s
3. Representations of Manbhum and Purulia in Orientalist Texts and the Task of Salvaging the Past of the Region
Part II: Pedagogic Practices, Local Articulations
4. The Small Voices of History: Subaltern Technologists of Colonial Bengal
5. The Advent of Primary Education in Bengal
6. Education and Training for Coal Miners: 'Ignorance' and 'Knowledge' in the Collieries of Raniganj and Jharia, 1901-1930
Part III: Administrative Imperatives, Governmental Manoeuvres
7. Military Interventions and Surveys in Southwest Bengal, c. 1765: Midnapore "Frontier" and the Wider Jangal Mahal
8. Rethinking Detection in Bengal: Police Work in the Districts and the City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
9. Influx and Efflux: A Case Study of the Nadia District, 1947-1971
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