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...Craig Baxter Muslim Identity and Community Consciousness: Bengal Legislative Politics 1912–36 . By Asim Pada Chakrabarti . Calcutta : Minerva Associates Pvt. Ltd. , 1993 . vii, 224 pp. $25.00 (cloth). The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900–1910...

...Leela Fernandes The Women's Movement and Colonial Politics in Bengal: The Quest for Political Rights, Education and Social Reform Legislation ., 1921–36. By Barbara Southard . New Delhi : Manohar , 1995 . x, 317 pp. $26.00 (cloth). Beyond Purdah?: Women in Bengal ., 1890–1939...

...John R. McLane Change in Bengal Agrarian Society c. 1760–1850 . By Ratnalekha Ray . New Delhi : Manohar , 1979 . viii, 294 pp. Bibliography, Appendixes, Index. N.p. Perspectives in Social Sciences 2: Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal, 1850–1947 . By Asok Sen...

...Madhavi Kale Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry . By Samita Sen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . xviii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1183 calls...

... and religious confines. They are loved, too, because they do not preach but rather woo with charming poems set to irresistible tunes that may compel them to dance. ,VOL. XXXIII, No. 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1974 The Esoteric Belief of the Bauls of Bengal CHARLES H. CAPWELL AMONG their fellow Bengalis...

...Samuel Wright Abstract This paper examines the values that informed the actions of two polities in seventeenth-century Bengal, the Nadia Raj and the Malla dynasty, through a close analysis of their temple inscriptions—a form of royal laudation or praśasti . Focusing on this inscriptional record...

... in Early Modern England . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Lourdusamy J. 2004 . Science and National Consciousness in Bengal, 1870–1930 . Hyderabad : Orient Longman . Ludden David . 1993 . “ Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge .” In Orientalism...

...Iftekhar Iqbal Abstract The article examines the spatial turn in the contestations between the Indian nation and the British empire, as manifested in the creation and annulment of a new province at the turn of the twentieth century. The province, Eastern Bengal and Assam, was a culmination...

...Haimanti Roy Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal . By Neilesh Bose . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xix, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780198097280 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

...Satadru Sen Abstract This article examines the writings of the nineteenth-century Indian essayist Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay. Locating the writer within the history of colonial Bengal and a wider world of racial anxieties, it excavates the foundations of Indian conservatism outside the familiar terrain...

...Ralph W. Nicholas Ranjana: A Village in West Bengal . By Gouranga Chattopadhyay . Calcutta : Bookland Private Limited , 1964 . 262 , Illustrations, Tables. Rs.20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 362 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES out that in India...

...Robert I. Crane Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal, 1818–1835 . By A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1965 . x, 204 , Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Guilders 28. 556 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Mark Naidis The Bengal Native Infantry: Its Organization & Discipline, 1796–1852 . By Amiya Barat . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1962 . xii, 341 . Rs. 25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 775 only nineteen times (p. 254...

...Umesh Pant West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India . By Marcus F. Franda . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press . 1968 . ix, 257 pp. Maps, Chart, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 420 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... of the image of Saraśvati , a child is helped by the priest to trace few letters of the alphabet on the floor with a chalk. In Bengal the ceremony is called haté kharhi , or “the chalk in hand” ceremony. 11 kālī is another form of Shakti , and is of the same order of divinity as Durgā . However...

...Marc Galanter The Introduction of English Law into India: The Career of Elijah Impey in Bengal, 1774–1783 . By B. N. Pandey . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . xiii , 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 JOURNAL...

...- turally alienated English-educated. Curiously Renaissance in Bengal: Quests and Confrontations, 1800-1860. BY ARABINDA PODDAR. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1970. 254 pp. Notes, Index. $7.00. enough, while Poddar accepts Toynbee's definition of the "non-Western intelligentsias...

...Barbara Ramusack The Blue Mutiny: The Indigo Disturbances in Bengal, 1859–1862 . By Blair B. Kling . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1966 . 243 pp. Map, Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 511...

...G. Richard Welbon Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism in the Vaiṣṇava-sahajiyā Cult of Bengal . By Edward C. Dimock Jr. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1966 . xix, 299 pp. Index...