Tensions in Bengal Rural Society
Tensions in Bengal Rural Society

Author: Chittabrata Palit

Publisher: UN

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9788125006848

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This Work Deals With The Tensions In The Agrarian Society Of Bengal For Four Decades After The Permanent Settlement Of 1793. These Tensions Related To The Pioneering Attempts Of The European Planters At Capitalist Farming Of Cash Crops, And Their Subsequent Efforts To Subvert The Established Rural Order.

Poetics of Village Politics
Poetics of Village Politics

Author: Arild Engelsen Ruud

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-29

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1000584445

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Originally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West Bengal. It analyses the emergence of rural communism in the local context of changes in the position of women, in caste practices, in economic conditions and in new efforts to create ‘development’. It investigates how this cultural change interacts with the mechanisms and tools of village politics, and using anthropological methods and oral history as tools, allows for a detailed and intimate ethnographic description of village politics and its changes.

Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1927
Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1927

Author: Rajat Kanta Ray

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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In studying the social, political, and economic history of Bengal during 50 critical years, this book unravels the complex relationship between imperialism and nationalism in Calcutta and its hinterland. Here, Ray analyzes both the long-term goals and short-term parochial preoccupations of Bengali nationalists in their struggle against imperialism. He examines how well the Bengalis fared on the all-India platform, how and why Bengali nationalism became divided within the region, and the movement's ability to penetrate from elite Calcutta to the grassroots of provincial Bengali society. Throughout, Ray effectively demonstrates that the dynamics of political change in Bengal lay in the increasing conflict between the European commercial and administrative elite and the Indian business and professional groups before, during and after World War I.