History of the Bengali-speaking people / Nitish Sengupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sengupta, Nitish K., 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bengali (South Asian people)--History.

Bengali (South Asian people).

History.

Bengal (India)--History.

Bengal (India).

Physical Description:

xiv, 550 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : UBS Publishers' Distributors, 2001.

Contents:

Part I Ancient Bengal

Chapter 1 Land and the People 1

Chapter 2 Early History of Bengal 13

Chapter 3 First Bengal Kingdom Under Sasanka 24

Chapter 4 The Imperial Palas 30

Chapter 5 The Sen Dynasty 40

Chapter 6 Turkish Conquest and Early Turkish Rulers of Bengal 50

Chapter 7 Ilyas Shahi Dynasty 56

Chapter 8 The Short-lived Dynasty of Raja Ganesh and the Later Ilyas Shahi Dynasty 61

Chapter 9 Spread of Islam 66

Part II The Emergence of Bengal in History

Chapter 10 The Glorious Age of Hussain Shah (1493-1519) 71

Chapter 11 Origin and Growth of Bengali Language and Early Bengali Literature 80

Chapter 12 Shri Chaitanya (1485-1534) Bengal Vaishnavism and Bengali Literature 93

Part III The Mughal Period

Chapter 13 The Pathans and the Mughals 98

Chapter 14 Bengal as a Province of Mughal Empire 104

Chapter 15 Advent of Europeans 119

Chapter 16 Age of Murshid Quli Khan 127

Chapter 17 Alivardi Khan (1740-56) and the Maratha Invasion 132

Chapter 18 Siraj-ud-Daulah (1756-57) and British Conquest of Bengal 138

Part IV The Early British Period

Chapter 19 Mir Jafar's Puppet Rule (1757-60): Real and Nominal Authority 156

Chapter 20 Nawab Mir Qasim

The Last Flicker of Assertion of Authority (1760-64) 162

Chapter 21 Era of Warren Hastings (1772-85) 175

Chapter 22 Anti-Government Popular Disturbances against Colonial Rule (1766-1857) 183

Chapter 23 Economic Transition During the First Century of British Rule 194

Part V 19th Century Renaissance and the Great Transformation

Chapter 24 Bengal Renaissance and the Transformation 209

Chapter 25 Religious Reform Movements (1857-1902) Keshav Sen, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda 242

Chapter 26 Literature and Art 253

Chapter 27 Industrial and Infrastructural Developments in the 19th Century 257

Chapter 28 The Indigo Movement (1859-62) 266

Chapter 29 The Administration of Lieutenant Governors (1854-1904) 272

Part VI Political Aspirations: Movements Towards Freedom

Chapter 30 Growth of Political Consciousness: A Nation in the Making 279

Chapter 31 Beginnings of Muslim Separatism: The Unmaking of a Nation 294

Chapter 32 First Partition of Bengal (1905) and the Aftermath 307

Chapter 33 Armed Revolutionary Movement: First Phase 330

Chapter 34 Morley-Minto Reforms and the Unpartitioning of Bengal 340

Chapter 35 Developments During the First World War (1914-18) 348

Part VII Age of Chittaranjan, Gandhi and Subhas Bose

Chapter 36 Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movement 357

Chapter 37 Dyarchy in Action (1921-26): Swarajya-Muslim Interaction 364

Chapter 38 Armed Revolutionary Movement: Second Phase (1920-35) 376

Chapter 39 Bengal Politics (1927-37) 388

Chapter 40 Crystallising of Bengalee Muslim Political Psyche 394

Chapter 41 Rise and Fall of Subhas Bose in Congress Politics 403

Part VIII Parting of Ways (1937-45)

Chapter 42 Fazlul Huq's First Government: KPP-Muslim League Coalition 420

Chapter 43 Shyama-Huq Coalition (1941-43) 434

Chapter 44 Nazimuddin's Muslim League Coalition Government and the Great Famine of 1943 451

Chapter 45 Subhas Bose's Grand Climax of the Azad Hind Fauj 462

Part IX Undivided Bengal: The Last Phase (1945-47)

Chapter 46 The Unintended and Stormy Emergence of Two Bengals 469.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

8174763554

OCLC:

49326692