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New Arrivals
| Location: | India |
| Publication Date: | 2012-08-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-05-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
194421 |
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New Arrivals:
Suvobrata Sarkar, The Quest for Technical Knowledge: Bengal in the Nineteenth Century, New Delhi: Manohar, 2012 [ISBN: 978-81-7304-949-1]
About the Book: Immense intellectual and cultural stirrings characterized nineteenth century Bengal. The impact of modern Western culture and conscious of defeat by a foreign power gave birth to a new awakening. Thoughtful Bengalis were impressed in particular by modern science and technology. The attainment of modern scientific knowledge in colonial Bengal was not purely a question of diffusion. Western science and technology viewed as cultural import, were actively redefined by the recipient culture. A different society, culture, tradition and existing indigenous knowledge systems provided the background in which the gradual spread of the new knowledge occurred, followed by its adaption through various reformulations. One of the major sources of dissemination of techno-scientific knowledge to the native society was the contemporary Bengali journals. This book is an account of the Bengali bhadralok's response to the modern technical knowledge as reflected in the pages of these journals.
Suvobrata Sarkar is a PhD Scholar at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. E-mail: suvobrata.india@gmail.com
Bipasha Raha, The Plough and the Pen: Peasantry, Agriculture and the Literati in Colonial Bengal, New Delhi: Manohar, 2012 [ISBN 978-81-7304-941-5]
About the Book: Since the 1830s Bengal witnessed a vast outpouring of creative writing. Their authors came from diverse social background. In some cases their portrayal of the peasantry was a manifestation of their coherent agrarian thinking. The interest centered on the legal and social status of peasants; types of tenures and their obligations; organization of agrarian production; impact of world economic forces on agrarian economy and existing land legislations. This book brings forward hitherto unexplored aspects of literati perception of peasants and agriculture in colonial Bengal. It focuses on representation of the peasant in different literary genres, on issues related to agriculture and rural resuscitation at a time where there was intensification of the nationalist movement and the necessity of acquiring a mass base becomes crucial for some members of the literati. Analysis of vernacular literature and those authored by men not well known socially, much of it still untapped, makes this book a pioneering one.
Bipasha Raha is Associate Professor of History at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. E-mail: rahabipasha27@gmail.com
Interested persons may contact:
Manohar Publishers & Distributors (www.manoharbooks.com)
4753/23 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002
E-mail: manbooks@vsnl.com, sales@manoharbooks.com
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Suvobrata Sarkar
PhD Scholar
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067, India
Email: suvobrata.india@gmail.com
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