Sir William Wilson Hunter, Bengal MS Records : A Selected List of 14,136 Letters in the Board of Revenue, Calcutta, 1782-1807, with an Historical Dissertation and Analytical Index...
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W.W. Hunter's Bengal Ms Records 1782-1807 in four volumes, is based on the Collectorate records and the records of the Board of Revenue which were widely scattered. Hunter made an extensive survey of these records which are now available in a complete form in the record room of the Directorate of State Archives, West Bengal. The records relate to the judicial, civil, military and land revenue administration of the East India Company. The introductory note of Hunter as found in the Bengal Ms Records and the bulk of letters, throw light on the revenue work that progressed territorially with the expansion of the Presidency. The importance of the Board of Revenue records was given considerable significance as these records were the raw data for reconstructing these volumes. Hunter's omnibus compilation had thrown light on various districts of Bengal Presidency, viz.,Midnapore, Bissenpore (Bishnupur), Cuttuck, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Chittagong, Purneah, Bhagalpur, Shahabad and Benares and dealt with such matters as rent suits, waste lands, lakhiraj lands, Government estates and their settlements, customs, excise, salt, opium, indigo, police, post office, and public works including sanitation, embankments, stamps and survey. The consolidated index prepared by Hunter shows the exhaustive nature of his research and would prove to be a lodestone for scholars of colonialism in South Asia.
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1 online resource (1484 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004752023
Remembering Komagata Maru : Official Reports and Contemporary Accounts /
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More than a hundred years ago on 27 September 1914, a bunch of weary Indians reached Calcutta on a Japanese steamship called the Komagata Maru from Vancouver, Canada. This was the 'bloody' climax of one of the most fascinating episodes in the Indian national movement that continues to inspire popular culture and scholars even today. The present compilation not only gives a complete profile of the Komagata Maru incident but throws light on the Descriptive Roll of Sikhs and Punjabis arrested in connection with the event. The saga of the Komagata Maru is a significant reminder of the character of the criminal exploitation which the colonizers generally inflicted on the people they colonized. The notion of civilizational superiority of the Whites was intrinsic to Imperialism. The commemoration of Komagata Maru is an occasion to explore and investigate how the ruling groups come to imagine and construct 'Others' and 'Undesirables'. Viewing the Komagata Maru project as a 'deliberate plot to foment sedition' pointed to another kind of argument, widely contrary to the perception and objective of the passengers and Baba Gurdit Singh. Over the years the tragic journey of Komagata Maru has inspired South Asian poets and playwrights, historians and journalists to reconstruct and memorialize the event from multiple perspectives. This volume is an attempt to situate the whole event in its historical perspective.
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1 online resource (708 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004752030
Adivasi Resistance in Early Colonial India : Comprising the Chuar Rebellion of 1799 by J.C. Price and Relevant Midnapore District Collectorate Records /
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In the present compilation the text of Chuar Rebellion written by J.C. Price has been reproduced from the West Bengal District Census Handbook, Midnapore (1951) and the accompanying contemporary official documents have been collected from the Midnapore District Collectorate. The volume focuses on the beginning of the tribal-led peasant resistance in South-West Bengal. Though the year A.D. 1799 is marked in the annals of Midnapore as the year of the great Chuar Rebellion but their resistance began much earlier, right since the Company's accession in Bengal. The grievances of the Adivasis coincided with the precarious condition of the Zamindars leading to the spark of a popular revolt which is commonly known as Chuar rebellion. This volume illuminates with much vigour one of the earliest known instances of subaltern struggle in colonial South Asia.
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1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004752016