Book of Donmon Teith

This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial govern

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

Biography of Prafulla Chandra Ray, 1861-1944, chemist from Bengal, India.

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understan

This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provin