...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...

...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...

...Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Green and Gold, Stories and Poems from Bengal . Edited by Humayun Kabir . New York : New Directions , 1958 . xi, 288 . Notes on Authors. Glossary. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 103 Green and Gold, Stories...

... Prābasī in B.S. 1322 (A.D. 1917), Vol. XV, is a song of the Bāul Āli Khān Munśi of Noakhāli district in East Bengal: Some say that praying to Hari instead of Kālī is an error. Some say that praying to Kali instead of Hari is an error. I have thought constantly upon these things, and have gone mad.... I...

...Heidi Pauwels Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond . By Jesse Ross Knutson . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014 . x, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780520282056 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Scott S. Reese Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migration . By Sunil S. Amrith . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The tea-producing...

... on global environmental and urban history. The book offers valuable insights on colonialism and cities in general. It will also appeal to grassroot activists, policy makers, and anyone concerned about rising sea levels and their impact on cities. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta . By Debjani...

...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...

..., the muti- same volume: 199b, 347c, 503d, 514b. The nous state of the Bengal army has been under- compiler of volume 36 dropped the subject estimated and relatively unexplored. The au- completely. Yet, this volume deals with one of thor has filled in the gap. the worst famines in Yi history and the move...

...Brijen K. Gupta Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 British Rule in India; An Assessment . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . x, 364. Index. $7.75. How the British Occupied Bengal: A Corrected Account of the 1755–1765 Events...

...Daniel Thorner Trade and Finance in the Bengal Presidency, 1793–1833 . By Amales Tripathi . Calcutta : Orient Longmans , 1956 . xiii, 289 . Index. Rs. 20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 502 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES items are, of course...

..., as distinct from the Tilis, occurred at a period when none of the technological, political, and intellectual developments had yet occurred in Bengal that are generally used to characterize modernization. They were established as a caste by the second decade of the nineteenth century while the history...

...Thomas A. Rusch Wavell the Viceroy's Journal . Edited by Penderel Moon . London : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xi, 528 pp. Appendix, Index. £8.00 The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume IV: The Bengal Famine and the Viceroyalty 15 June 1943–31 August 1944 . Edited by Nicholas...

... (“Hierarchical Man: Louis Dumont and His Critics,” South Asian Review, IV, 3 [1971], pp. 233–37). 5 Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle Period Bengal, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1975. 6 “A Cultural Analysis of Bengali Kinship,” in Prelude...

...Frank F. Conlon Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876–1940 . By Leonard A. Gordon . New York : Columbia University Press , 1974 . xiii, 407 pp. Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 569 future research...

... FISHER Manhattanville College Ruth PrawerJhabvala is interesting in its conception and organization. Its two chief sections deal with Jhabvala's comic and ironic modes, which Shahane views as respectively affirmative Modern Bengal: A Socio-economic Survey. EDITED BY S. P. SEN. Calcutta: Institute...

... Bengal . By Marcus F. Franda . Cambridge, Massachusetts : The M.I.T. Press , 1971 . xiv , 287 pp. Tables, Graph, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS tutional capability of such organizations will be sufficient to provide enough...