Bengal Miscellany, Vol. I

Contents: 1. Eighteenth century in Bengal: stagnation or gestation?/Chittabrata Palit. 2. The problem child of colonial Calcutta: the Much-maligned Babu/Narasingha P. Sil. 3. Medical viability of child marriage/Abhijit Dutta. 4. Missionary zeal: a spectrum of missionary work in India/Sandeep Sinha. 5. Manmohun Ghosh: a patriot of 19 century Bengal/Keka Duta Roy. 6. Sriniketan: a mission of the poet : some aspects of Rabindranath\'s health care project/Manimanjari Mitra. 7. Rabindranath Tagore\'s concept of education and experiment at Santiniketan/Keya Banerjee. 8. Techniques and technology in the traditional fisheries in colonial Bengal/Subhas Chandra Sen. Index.

"This is a collection of miscellaneous essays on various aspects of the history of Bengal ranging from economic transition, child marriage, missionary work, Tagore\'s rural reconstruction programme on public health, his concept of education to Bengali Babus, indigenous fishing technologies and Manmohan Ghosh a political leader. It is a panorama of colonial history at a micro level which can be generalised for other regions of India." (jacket)