Rethinking the local in Indian history. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta and Tista Das.
• Editors: Sengupta, Kaustubh Mani; Das, Tista, 1979-
• Contents: Introduction 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 954.14035; Bengal (India) -- History, Local
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000425529; 9781000425475; 9781003094395
• Related ISBNs: 9780367514136
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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