Sudarshana Bhaumik

The Changing World of Caste and Hierarchy in Bengal

Depiction from the Mangalkavyas c. 1700-1931

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the prevalent assumptions of caste, hierarchy, and social mobility in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780367557553
• ISBN-10: 036755755X
• Artikelnr.: 64105385

Autorenporträt

Sudarshana Bhaumik is Assistant Professor of History at Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR. She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is a recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Grant Fellowship (2018). She has delivered lectures at various international conferences held at places like Queens College, Oxford (March 2019), IIAS Leiden (July 2019) and Victoria University of Wellington (November 2019). She has published articles in numerous journals and edited volumes including IIAS Summer Hill , Historical Sources and Genres and Encyclopaedia of Historiography: Africa, America, Asia (2019). She has worked as Assistant Professor (History) in the Lovely Professional University, Punjab and has also worked as Guest Faculty in the Department of History, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, and as Guest Lecturer at Milli Al-Ameen College for Girls (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Locating the issues of marginality and hierarchy in
colonial Bengal: histories from the long past 2. The making of the goddess
tradition in Bengal: exploring the world of omnipotent lower caste
malevolent deities 3. Popular religion, myths, orality and subalternity in
Bengal 4. Land reclamation leading to new agriculture and settlement 5.
Risley and the constructed Bengali space: caste, census and the relevance
of jatis Conclusion