Report of the Sixth Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, on the 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th December, 1890
Title | Report of the Sixth Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, on the 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th December, 1890 PDF eBook |
Author | Indian National Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Early Writings on India
Title | Early Writings on India PDF eBook |
Author | H.K. Kaul |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2017-04-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351867172 |
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Report of the Twenty-sixth Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta on the 26th, 27th & 28th December 1911
Title | Report of the Twenty-sixth Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta on the 26th, 27th & 28th December 1911 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
The Rays before Satyajit
Title | The Rays before Satyajit PDF eBook |
Author | Chandak Sengoopta |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2016-05-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199089647 |
In the history of Indian cinema, the name of Satyajit Ray needs no introduction. However, what remains unvoiced is the contribution of his forebears and their tryst with Indian modernity. Be it in art, advertising, and printing technology or in nationalism, feminism, and cultural reform, the earlier Rays attempted to create forms of the modern that were uniquely Indian and cosmopolitan at the same time. Some of the Rays, especially Upendrakishore and his son, Sukumar, are iconic figures in Bengal. But even Bengali historiography is almost exclusively concerned with the family’s contributions to children’s literature. However, as this study highlights, the family also played an important role in engaging with new forms of cultural modernity. Apart from producing literary works of enduring significance, they engaged in diverse reformist endeavours. The first comprehensive work in English on the pre-Satyajit generations, The Rays before Satyajit is more than a collective biography of an extraordinary family. It interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity.
The Congress Ideology and Programme, 1920-47
Title | The Congress Ideology and Programme, 1920-47 PDF eBook |
Author | Pitambar Datta Kaushik |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Report of the Proceedings of the Sixth Session of Indian National Congress, 1890
Title | Report of the Proceedings of the Sixth Session of Indian National Congress, 1890 PDF eBook |
Author | Indian National Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Science and National Consciousness in Bengal
Title | Science and National Consciousness in Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | J. Lourdusamy |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9788125026747 |
This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. His analysis of the careers of two scientists, J. C. Bose and P. C. Ray, and two institution builders, Mahendralal Sircar and Asutosh Mookerjee, brings to light the issues related to science at a time of colonialism and nationalism. Scientists often had to depend on British institutions for legitimation and funding, while also supporting the nationalist cause for greater autonomy. One of the central claims of this book is that the protagonists aimed to contribute to a modern world science, one based on a strong sense of universalism. They did not aim to construct any alternative sciences, though they did express and apply their work by drawing on their cultural heritage. This makes Science and National Consciousness a work of particular relevance today, when a homogenous, instrumentalist and totally Western conception of science is being globally accepted.