Excavating the Revolt of 1857
Contents: Introduction. 1. Sir Saiyyid Ahmad Khan and the great revolt of 1857/Chittabrata Palit. 2. Nationalism and representation of an Icon in literature in colonial India: Rani Lakshmibai in Modern Hindi Literature/Hitendra K. Patel. 3. Public executions during 1857: The cases of Gond Raja, Shankar Shah and His son, Raghunath Shah (18th September 1857)/Abhijit Dutta. 4. Political consciousness of the people of Murshidabad (W.B) and the great revolt o 1857/Md. Khairul Anam. 5. 1857 and Bengali Novels (1857-1900)/Gautam Basu. 6. How an imagined community came to terms with a felt community: The shifting attitude of the Bengali intelligentsia to the Revolt of 1857/Anuradha Roy. 7. Changing Bengalee Attitudes of the Revolt of 1857/Malabika Ray. 8. The Nature of participation of the Muslims in the Rebellion of 1857/Goutam Neogi. 9. The Sepoy mutiny of 1857: Patriotic outburst or anger against the masters/Sumanta Hira. 10. 1857 Revolt in the Bombay Presidency/Ranjit Sen. 11. Verses of the troubled times (1857 and the poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar)/Debashish Raychaudhiri. 12. Rangpur District during great mutiny of 1857: An analysis/S.M. Sarwar Morshed. 13. Revolt of 1857 and Bengal/Ananda Bhattacarya. 14. New perspective of the great Revolt of 1857/Anindita Ghoshal.
The 150th anniversary of the great Revolt of 1857 was celebrated all over the country by holding national and international seminars at Centres of Learning. One such national seminar was held in Kolkata by the History Department of Jadavpur University in June 2007.
The book is the proceedings volume of that seminar. It reflects the rainbow spectrum of the nature of the revolt seen from different prisms of vision of different personalities. The result is a book of outstanding vintage and is destined to be a big draw for the reading public.
