Bengal Miscellany : Vol. 3

Contents: 1. Capitalist agriculture in colonial Bengal/Chittabrata Palit. 2. Diku impact on Santal economic life and condition Midnapur (1799-1855)/Kaushik Ananda. 3. Kamins of Eastern Coalmines and their spokeswoman Kamini Ray/Sutapa Sengupta. 4. Rajnarain Bose and Hindu nationalism/Ballari Sen . 5. Roots of Muslim awakening in Bengal/Syed Tanveer Nasreen. 6. Revolutionary leaflets of Bengal (1905-1918)/Kabita Ray. 7. Youth and student community and freedom movement/Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay. 8. Classes and communities in the peasant movement of Khulna district in undivided Bengal (1938-47)/Sati Dutta. 9. The Derozians identity crisis and Christian conversions/Abhijit Dutta. 10. Rathindranath Tagore : the silent architect behind community driven development at Viswa Bharati/Anindya Sen. 11. Krishnath college and the state of higher education in Murshidabad (1853-1953)/Anirudddha Das. 12. Educating the child: from Pathshala to public school/Nilanjana Basu. 13. Journalism, and the Bengali middle class perception of a profession in the 19th and 20th centuries/Ujjal Ray. 14. The middle class working women in Calcutta/Roshmi Adhikary. 15. Colonial historiography and the music women of India/Debashish Ray Chaudhuri. 16. William Carey and development of earth science studies in India/Sunil Chatterjee. 17. Pramatha Nath Bose and Indian geology/Subhaya Chatterjee. 18. Conservation of east Calcutta Wetlands--from the perspective of Calcutta\'s urban future/Sunita Chandra. 19. Folk culture based games in the context of indigenous education in Midnapore/Subrata Kumar Mal.

The series entitled \'Bengal Miscellany\' has been designed to focus on the different aspects of Bengal\'s history, economy and culture through academic papers written by eminent scholars and young researchers. (jacket)