Crime and control in early colonial Bengal, 1770-1860 9788170742272 8170742277

Authority and Violence in Colonial Bengal : 1800-1860 9788185635316, 8185635315

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jadavpur University).

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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal 0822344629, 9780822344629

An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenge

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Appropriation and Invention of Tradition: The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal 0199087903, 9780199087907

The beginning of Anglo-Hindu jurisprudence was occasioned by decisive developments in the cultural, intellectual, and le

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Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal 9780367410131, 9781003013990

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Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal 1351399659, 9781351399654

Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropolo

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Mind, body, and society : life and mentality in colonial Bengal 9780195637571, 0195637577

Contributed papers of series of lectures and seminars organized by the Department of History, Presidency College and Cal

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The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal 019566910X, 9780195669107

This book is about the intellect in nineteenth century Bengal. It analyses why from the second half of the nineteenth ce

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Companies, Commerce and Merchants: Bengal in the Pre-Colonial Era 9781138234796, 9781315276830

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Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati 9781472489449, 9781315223148

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Critique of legal order: crime control in capitalist society

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