History of the Bengali-speaking people /

History of the Bengali-speaking people /

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Author / Creator:Sengupta, Nitish K., 1934-
Imprint:New Delhi : UBS Publishers' Distributors, 2001.
Description:xiv, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Bengali (South Asian people) -- History.
Bengali (South Asian people)
Bengal (India) -- History.
India -- Bengal.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4692333
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ISBN:8174763554
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I. Ancient Bengal
  • Chapter 1. Land and the People
  • Chapter 2. Early History of Bengal
  • Chapter 3. First Bengal Kingdom Under Sasanka
  • Chapter 4. The Imperial Palas
  • Chapter 5. The Sen Dynasty
  • Chapter 6. Turkish Conquest and Early Turkish Rulers of Bengal
  • Chapter 7. Ilyas Shahi Dynasty
  • Chapter 8. The Short-lived Dynasty of Raja Ganesh and the Later Ilyas Shahi Dynasty
  • Chapter 9. Spread of Islam
  • Part II. The Emergence of Bengal in History
  • Chapter 10. The Glorious Age of Hussain Shah (1493-1519)
  • Chapter 11. Origin and Growth of Bengali Language and Early Bengali Literature
  • Chapter 12. Shri Chaitanya (1485-1534) Bengal Vaishnavism and Bengali Literature
  • Part III. The Mughal Period
  • Chapter 13. The Pathans and the Mughals
  • Chapter 14. Bengal as a Province of Mughal Empire
  • Chapter 15. Advent of Europeans
  • Chapter 16. Age of Murshid Quli Khan
  • Chapter 17. Alivardi Khan (1740-56) and the Maratha Invasion
  • Chapter 18. Siraj-ud-Daulah (1756-57) and British Conquest of Bengal
  • Part IV. The Early British Period
  • Chapter 19. Mir Jafar's Puppet Rule (1757-60): Real and Nominal Authority
  • Chapter 20. Nawab Mir Qasim--The Last Flicker of Assertion of Authority (1760-64)
  • Chapter 21. Era of Warren Hastings (1772-85)
  • Chapter 22. Anti-Government Popular Disturbances against Colonial Rule (1766-1857)
  • Chapter 23. Economic Transition During the First Century of British Rule
  • Part V. 19th Century Renaissance and the Great Transformation
  • Chapter 24. Bengal Renaissance and the Transformation
  • Chapter 25. Religious Reform Movements (1857-1902) Keshav Sen, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
  • Chapter 26. Literature and Art
  • Chapter 27. Industrial and Infrastructural Developments in the 19th Century
  • Chapter 28. The Indigo Movement (1859-62)
  • Chapter 29. The Administration of Lieutenant Governors (1854-1904)
  • Part VI. Political Aspirations: Movements Towards Freedom
  • Chapter 30. Growth of Political Consciousness: A Nation in the Making
  • Chapter 31. Beginnings of Muslim Separatism: The Unmaking of a Nation
  • Chapter 32. First Partition of Bengal (1905) and the Aftermath
  • Chapter 33. Armed Revolutionary Movement: First Phase
  • Chapter 34. Morley-Minto Reforms and the Unpartitioning of Bengal
  • Chapter 35. Developments During the First World War (1914-18)
  • Part VII. Age of Chittaranjan, Gandhi and Subhas Bose
  • Chapter 36. Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movement
  • Chapter 37. Dyarchy in Action (1921-26): Swarajya-Muslim Interaction
  • Chapter 38. Armed Revolutionary Movement: Second Phase (1920-35)
  • Chapter 39. Bengal Politics (1927-37)
  • Chapter 40. Crystallising of Bengalee Muslim Political Psyche
  • Chapter 41. Rise and Fall of Subhas Bose in Congress Politics
  • Part VIII. Parting of Ways (1937-45)
  • Chapter 42. Fazlul Huq's First Government: KPP-Muslim League Coalition
  • Chapter 43. Shyama-Huq Coalition (1941-43)
  • Chapter 44. Nazimuddin's Muslim League Coalition Government and the Great Famine of 1943
  • Chapter 45. Subhas Bose's Grand Climax of the Azad Hind Fauj
  • Part IX. Undivided Bengal: The Last Phase (1945-47)
  • Chapter 46. The Unintended and Stormy Emergence of Two Bengals
  • Index

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