Society and Culture in Bengal : Essays in Memory of Bhaskar Chattopadhyay (Hardcover)

Foreword.?‘Bhaskarda’ ? Personal Reminiscences of a gentle teacher, scholar and soul.?Introduction.?Part I:?Aspects of Society, Economy, and Religion of Pre-modern Bengal?1.?Currency in Early Bengal?2.?Archaeological Sites in a Constructed Landscape: Case Histories from Rarh Bengal?3.?Perspectives of Historical Biographies in Early India?4.?The act of D?na or Deyadhamma: Patronage to Buddhist monasteries in early Bengal (c.5^th?cent. CE to 13^th?cent. CE)?5.?Confluence of Creativity and Spirituality: A Study of Some Arabic Inscriptions of the Bengal Sultanate?6.?Challenges in Studying Social History of Medieval Bengal?7.?Medical Literature from Early Medieval Bengal: Making of a Regional Tradition?Part II: Exploring Life and Culture in Modern Bengal?8.?Three Overlapping Frontiers in Early Modern Bengal: Religion, Agrarian, Imperial?9.?The Cultural Dynamics of Rahr: Defiance and Decline.?10.?Who Owns the Past? Contestation on Mahabodhi Temple?11.?Patriotism and a Poet in the Colonial World: Rabindranath Tagore and Nationalism?12.?Calcutta: The Emergence of a Science City (1784-1896)?13.?‘They’ Wanted to Live: Lens, the Witness?14.?‘For the Recovery of His Health:’ The East India Company and the Problem of Tropical Invalidism?15.?Disease and Disruption in a Bengal District: Fever, Agriculture and Peasantry of Burdwan, 1863-1921