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The varied facets of history : essays in honour of Aniruddha Ray

Title
The varied facets of history : essays in honour of Aniruddha Ray / edited by Ishrat Alam, Syed Ejaz Hussain.
Publication
Delhi : Primus Books, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Ray, Aniruddha.
  • Alam, Ishrat.
  • Hussain, Syed Ejaz.
Description
vi, 307 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 25 cm
Summary
Festschrift for Aniruddha Ray, former professor, Dept. of Islamic History and Culture, University of Calcutta; contributed articles.
Subject
  • 1000-1765
  • History in literature
  • India > History > 1000-1765
  • Bengal (India) > History
  • India
  • India > Bengal
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.
Contents
The historian of change professor Aniruddha Ray / Ranjit Sen -- Darwin and interpretations of history / Shireen Moosvi -- Historians among archaeologists exploring urban sites of Medieval Bengal / Ratnabali Chatterjee -- Medieval archaeology in South Asia / Iqtidar Alam Khan -- Extracting social history from documents of Medieval India / Ishrat Alam -- The evidence of words : in search of the popular in Medieval Bengali literature / Nupur Dasgupta -- Hindi/Hindwi in medieval times aspects of evolution and recognition of a language / Irfan Habib -- Translating texts and straddling worlds intercultural communication in Mughal India / Najaf Haider -- Spiritual dimensions of Islam sufism, sheikhs and khanqahs of Bengal / Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq -- Representation of middle class professionals in mughal visual art / Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi -- Tazkira-i-Majmaul-Shu'ra-Jahangir Shahi a source of historical information / Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui -- Commercial ledgers and books of accounts of a Tamil merchant in pondicherry (ad 1736-69) / S. Jeyaseela Stephen -- The poet and his patron Bharat Chandra Ray (1712-60) and Raja Krishna Chandra Ray of Nadia (1728-82) / France Bhattacharya -- The revolt of 1857 in Bengali literature / Susnata Das -- An encounter with occidental technology an Indo-Persian prince in England and Europe / Syed Ejaz Hussain -- Kutch's rich composite culture many colours, many influences / Mariam Dossal -- Assam tea plantation labourers and the role of the Brahmo Samaj as influenced by Dwarakanath Ganguli / Kanailal Chattopadhyay.
ISBN
  • 9380607164
  • 9789380607160
LCCN
2012323827
OCLC
  • ocn761288427
  • 761288427
  • SCSB-1618125
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library