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Dasgupta, Koushiki. "The Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the First General Election in West Bengal: The Enigma of Hindu Politics in early 1950s." Studies in Indian Politics 8, no. 1 (2020): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023020918063.

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The first general elections proved to be a disaster for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bengal in terms of its performance and its failure to make the Hindu Bengalis a consolidated political block. Prior to the election, the party had generated immense hopes and aspirations especially among the refugees from East Bengal. Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the leader of the opposition, appeared to be the sole spokesman of the Bengali Hindus and fought the election with a promise to secure the political fate of the Hindu Bengalis, especially the refugees from East Bengal. But very soon the party lost the e

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Pramanik, Debashish Kumar, and Taposh Kumar Neogy. "The Bengal Partition of 1905: the Evaluation of British Civilians Activities and Its Effect and Consequence." Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 5, no. 2 (2018): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v5i2.334.

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The Partition of Bengal (1905) and the creation of a new province opened a new chapter in the history of this region. Whatever might have been the real motive of the colonial government behind the scheme, it divided the Hindus and the Muslims of Bengal. Most of the upper caste Hindus opposed it on the ground that by partitioning Bengal the government, in effect, had planned to divide the Bangla- speaking people. The also argued that it was the part of the government’s grand design of ‘divide and rule’. On the other hand, most of the upper class Muslims in general supported the scheme. The thou

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Routh, Deepa, and Suvendu Maji. "Understanding the Fertility Behavior of Bengali-speaking Hindu and Hindi-speaking Hindu Populations Occupying Similar Urban Locale of Kolkata, West Bengal: A Snapshot Regarding Family Planning Decision-making Process." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 21, no. 1 (2021): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x21994682.

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This study was conducted to understand the fertility behavior between the two population groups speaking different languages: Bengali-speaking Hindus and Hindi-speaking Hindus. The study further attempts to study the perception and practice regarding contraception use and their decision-making ability. The present study was conducted in Kolkata, West Bengal. A total of 64 women (Bengali-speaking Hindus: 34 and Hindi-speaking Hindus: 30) ranging between 15 years and 44 years were chosen by convenience sampling method. Semi-structured interview schedule was employed to record the response of the

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HOSSAIN, ASHFAQUE. "The Making and Unmaking of Assam-Bengal Borders and the Sylhet Referendum." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 1 (2012): 250–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x1200056x.

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AbstractThe creation of Assam as a new province in 1874 and the transfer of Sylhet from Bengal to Assam provided a new twist in the shaping of the northeastern region of India. Sylhet remained part of Assam from 1874 to 1947, which had significant consequences in this frontier locality. This paper re-examines archival sources on political mobilization, rereads relevant autobiographical texts, and reviews oral evidence to discover the ‘experienced’ history of the region as distinct from the ‘imagined’ one. The sub-text of partition (Sylhet) is more intriguing than the main text (Bengal), becaus

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Brown, Carolyn Henning. "Raja and Rank in North Bihar." Modern Asian Studies 22, no. 4 (1988): 757–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00015730.

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The Maithil Brahmans of Bihar and the Bengali Brahmans of Bengal, two of the five great North Indian Brahman castes, had, as of the early nineteenth century, closely similar systems of ranked grades and hypergamously marrying lineages. In addition, fundamental concepts—of purity and pollution, of coded substance, of sattva, rajas, and tamas (Dumont 1970; Inden 1976; Davis 1983)—form a shared construction of reality for both groups of Hindus. Yet despite a common ideation and similar patterns of organization up to that point, the ‘Kulin system’ of Bengal virtually disappeared in the middle of t

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Togawa, Masahiko. "Syncretism Revisited: Hindus and Muslims over a Saintly Cult in Bengal." Numen 55, no. 1 (2008): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852708x271288.

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AbstractThis paper reconsiders the concept of “syncretism,” and identifies its range and implications when applied to the analysis of the saintly cult of the Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The mausoleum of Manamohan Datta (1877–1909) is situated in what is currently eastern Bangladesh. Both Hindus and Muslims in the area join together in the various rituals held at the mausoleum. The article discusses the social and cultural factors that explain the sharing of rituals and beliefs by these people. In particular, word correspondences in the religious vocabulary facilitates the mutual acceptance o

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SARKAR, ABHIJIT. "Fed by Famine: The Hindu Mahasabha's politics of religion, caste, and relief in response to the Great Bengal Famine, 1943–1944." Modern Asian Studies 54, no. 6 (2020): 2022–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x19000192.

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AbstractThis article demonstrates how the Great Bengal Famine of 1943–1944 and relief activism during it fed the politics of the Hindu right, a development that has not previously received much scholarly attention. Using hitherto unused primary sources, the article introduces a novel site to the study of communal politics, namely, the propagation of Hindu communalism through food distribution during a humanitarian crisis. It examines the caste and class bias in private relief and provides the first in-depth study of the multifaceted process whereby the Hindu Mahasabha used the famine for polit

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Rey-Schirr, Catherine. "The ICRC's activities on the Indian subcontinent following partition (1947–1949)." International Review of the Red Cross 38, no. 323 (1998): 267–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020860400091026.

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In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the British government clearly stated its intention of granting independence to India.The conflict between the British and the Indian nationalists receded into the background, while the increasing antagonism between Hindus and Muslims came to the fore. The Hindus, centred round the Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru, wanted to maintain the unity of India by establishing a government made up of representatives of the two communities. The Muslims, under the banner of the Muslim League and its President, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, demanded the creation o

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Saha, Ashis Kumar, Somnath Maitra, and Subhas Chandra Hazra. "Epidemiology of Gastric Cancer in the Gangetic Areas of West Bengal." ISRN Gastroenterology 2013 (October 23, 2013): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/823483.

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There is marked geographical variation in the distribution and incidence of stomach cancer. We tried here to describe the pattern of relationships of age, sex, religion distribution, symptom profile, histological subtypes and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection with gastric cancer in Gangetic West Bengal. This study was done over a period of five years (2006–2010). The patients residing in the Gangetic areas of West Bengal presenting with upper gastrointestinal symptoms underwent UGI endoscopy. Among gastric cancer patients, demographic characteristics, symptomatology, macroscopic and hi

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KURZON, DENNIS. "Romanisation of Bengali and Other Indian Scripts." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 20, no. 1 (2009): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186309990319.

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AbstractThis article will discuss two attempts at the romanisation of Indian languages in the twentieth century, one in pre-independence India and the second in Pakistan before the Bangladesh war of 1971. By way of background, an overview of the status of writing in the subcontinent will be presented in the second section, followed by a discussion of various earlier attempts in India to change writing systems, relating mainly to the situation in Bengal, which has one language and one script used by two large religious groups – Muslims and Hindus (in modern-day Bangladesh and West Bengal, respe

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Dey, Archita, Mahua Chanak, Kaustav Das, Koel Mukherjee, and Kaushik Bose. "Variation in lip print pattern between two ethnic groups, Oraon tribals and Bengalee Hindus, residing in West Bengal, India." Anthropological Review 82, no. 4 (2019): 405–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/anre-2019-0031.

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Abstract Lip print pattern (LPP) is unique to each individual. For decades, forensic experts have used LPP for personal identification to solve criminal cases. However, studies investigating ethnic variation in LPP are scanty. Our study wanted to investigate variation in LPP between two ethnic groups, Oraon tribals and Bengalee Hindus, residing in West Bengal, India. A total of 280 participants included 112 Oraons and168 Bengalee Hindus of both. Prints were taken using dark shaded lipstick and transparent cellophane tape and recorded into white A4 sheet. Prints were divided into four quadrants

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Sarwar Khan, Golam, and Khorshed Chowdhury. "Family Values and Cultural Continuity among the Displaced East Bengal Hindus in Kolkata." International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review 6, no. 6 (2007): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9532/cgp/v06i06/39282.

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Moodie, Deonnie. "ON BLOOD, POWER, AND PUBLIC INTEREST: THE CONCEALMENT OF HINDU SACRIFICIAL RITES UNDER INDIAN LAW." Journal of Law and Religion 34, no. 2 (2019): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2019.24.

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AbstractCritiques of animal sacrifice in India have become increasingly strident over the past fifteen years. In the state of West Bengal, many of these critiques center on Kālīghāṭ, a landmark Hindu pilgrimage site in Kolkata where goats are sacrificed daily to the goddess Kālī. However, while similar critiques of this practice have resulted in many Indian states pushing to ban it—or enforce previous bans of it—no such legal action has been issued in West Bengal. Instead, in 2006, the Calcutta High Court ruled that this practice must be visually concealed at Kālīghāṭ. Drawing on modernist not

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Hak, Durk. "Pedagogy and religion. Missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal." Paedagogica Historica 50, no. 4 (2013): 554–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2013.803692.

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Nair, Neeti. "Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal." Social History 37, no. 3 (2012): 341–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2012.696828.

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Bhattacharyya, Shatarupa. "Localising Global Faiths The Heterodox Pantheon of the Sundarbans." Asian Review of World Histories 5, no. 1 (2017): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2017.5.1.141.

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This essay foregrounds the Sundarbans, a littoral zone in India that moves between sea and land and is a site of global history. It studies the pantheon of divinities, especially Bonbibi (Lady of the Forest), a mythical figure of Muslim origin. Such deities are worshipped by both Hindus and Muslims exclusively in the Sundarbans (Beautiful Forest) that straddles the state of West Bengal (India) and the nation-state of Bangladesh. It demonstrates how the Sundarbans, during Islamisation in the medieval era actively adapted, as against passively adopting, the global faith of Islam to suit the loca

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Maiti, Nibedita, Pubali Mitra, Amalendu Maiti, Biswanath Maity, and Madhusudan Das. "Health, Hygiene and Sanitation Practice of Santalis and Hindus in Rural Sectors of East Medinipur District, West Bengal, India: APreliminary Survey." International Journal of Research and Development in Pharmacy & Life Sciences 6, no. 7 (2017): 2867–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21276/ijrdpl.2278-0238.2017.6(7).2867-2873.

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Hedlund, Roger E. "Book Review: Pedagogy for religion: missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal." Missiology: An International Review 41, no. 2 (2013): 228–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829612475170c.

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Banerjee-Dube, Ishita. "Book Review: Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal." Indian Economic & Social History Review 51, no. 1 (2014): 133–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464613516598.

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Bhargava, Devendra Swaroop. "Nature and the Ganga." Environmental Conservation 14, no. 4 (1987): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900016829.

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The Ganga's unique and numerous virtues appear to be based on myths, but the reasons for its importance are traceable to scientific premises. The Ganga, symbolizing Indian culture and civilization, is regarded by the Hindus as the holiest amongst the rivers, and it is the Indo-Gangetic plain's most significant river owing to its mighty basin and course, and extraordinarily high self-purifying powers. The Ganga originates from Gangori in the Uttrakhand Himalayan glacier as an upland stream, emerges as a river of the plains at Rishikesh, and, after traversing almost the entirety of India from We

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Bhavani, P., and Dr M. Kannadhasan. "The Conflict Of Nation And Partition In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines." History Research Journal 5, no. 4 (2019): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/hrj.v5i4.7117.

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Amitav Ghosh is a postmodernist writer. He is immensely influenced by the political and cultural milieu of post-independent India. Being a social anthropologist and having the opportunity of visiting alien lands, he comments on the present scenario, the world is passing through in his novels. Almost all the works of Amitav Ghosh reflected the theme of borders and boundaries among nations. The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh, published in 1988. The Shadow Lines is the novel deal exclusively with the consequences of the Partition and mainly conce

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Bellenoit, H. J. "Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. By Parna Sengupta." Journal of Hindu Studies 6, no. 2 (2013): 228–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hit017.

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Elliott, Kelly. "Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal by Parna Sengupta." Journal of World History 24, no. 3 (2013): 721–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2013.0084.

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Basu, Gandhari, Joyeeta Roy, Chitra Chatterjee, and Manidip Pal. "Epidemiology of ectopic pregnancy: A cross sectional study in a sub urban teaching hospital of West Bengal." Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 6, no. 2 (2014): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10625.

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Objectives: To understand the epidemiology, prevalence of high risk factors, the mode of treatment in ectopic pregnancy (EP) cases over a largely unevaluated population. Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2012 to December 2012 in a teaching hospital of Kalyani, West Bengal. History was taken post-operatively in all patients diagnosed with EP according to the pre designed schedule after obtaining informed verbal consent. The data was analysed using statistical formula as applicable. During this period we noted 62 cases diagnosed having ectop

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Das, Basudevlal. "The Bajanama Inscription of Jagatasena." Academic Voices: A Multidisciplinary Journal 2 (June 30, 2013): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/av.v2i1.8276.

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The Sena dynasty was established in Nepal after its downfall in Bengal. The Senas were orthodox Hindus. The kingdom of Makawanpur was ruled by the kings of Sena dynasty. Janakpur was situated within its territory. The condition of Janaki Temple Monastery of Janakpur became pitiable and the monk called the king for the betterment of the monastery. But the state was unable to do, so the Bajanama, a kind of desistance paper, was given in 1733 AD. This paper is written to thirough lights on the matters of economic condition of the state, the official language which is a mixed form of Hindi, Bhojpu

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Rumi, Emili. "Muslim Education in Murshidabad, a Bengal District during 1704-1947: A Review." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 11, no. 3 (2018): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v11.n3.p3.

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<p>The historic city of Murshidabad-the earstwhile nawabi capital –a city founded in the year 1704 by Murshid Quli Khan, the Mughal diwan of Bengal. In 1704 Murshid Quli Khan transferred the capital of Bengal from Dhaka to Murshidabad and named the city after his name .The town is situated on the left bank of river Bhagirathi. It is the northern most district of the Presidency Division of West Bengal and lies between 23 o 43’ and 24 o 52’ north latitude and 87 0 49’ and 88 0 44’ east longitude .<strong> </strong>Under the Nawabs Murshidabad’s glory reached to the highest peak

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BASU, SUBHO. "The Paradox of Peasant Worker: Re-conceptualizing workers’ politics in Bengal 1890–1939." Modern Asian Studies 42, no. 1 (2008): 47–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0700279x.

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AbstractThis essay explores labor politics in Bengal in the period between 1890 and 1939. It investigates numerous supposed paradoxes in labor politics such as the coexistence of intense industrial action marked by workers’ solidarity and communal rioting between Hindus and Muslims, labor militancy and weak formal trade union organization. In existing historiography, these paradoxes are explained through a catch all phrase ‘peasant worker’—a concept that perceives Indian workers as not fully divorced from rural society and thus were susceptible to fragmentary pulls of natal ties that acted as

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Alam, Sarwar. "Sufism Without Boundaries: Pluralism, Coexistence, and Interfaith Dialogue in Bangladesh." Comparative Islamic Studies 9, no. 1 (2015): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cis.v9i1.26765.

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Most scholars believe that the majority of the population of Bangladesh embraced Islam through the influence of the Sufis (mystics, holy men). A large majority of Bangladeshi Muslims perceives Sufis as sources of their spiritual wisdom and guidance, viewing Sufi khanqahs [hospices] and dargahs [mausoleums] to be the nerve centers of Muslim society. It has been argued that the greatest achievement of the Sufis of Bengal is the “growth of cordiality and unity between the Hindus and the Muslims.” Yet, Sufism is a contested phenomenon in Bangladesh. Islamic reform movements in the nineteenth and t

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Bayly, C. A. "South Asia and the ‘Great Divergence’." Itinerario 24, no. 3-4 (2000): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300014510.

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Indian nationalism was born out of the notion that India's poverty and backwardness was not a natural result of technical inferiority or inefficient use of resources, but that it was a consequence of colonial rule. Even before the development of scientific nationalist economics in the 1890s, the moralists of Young Bengal had called for a protectionist ‘national political economy’ on the lines advocated by Friedrich List in Germany, whom they had read as early as 1850. Bholanath Chandra asserted in 1873 that India had once been the greatest textile producer in the world and had initiated the in

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Hatcher, Brian A. "Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. By Parna Sengupta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. x + 211. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95." Religious Studies Review 39, no. 2 (2013): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.12043_12.

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BASU, SUBHO. "The Dialectics of Resistance: Colonial Geography, Bengali Literati and the Racial Mapping of Indian Identity." Modern Asian Studies 44, no. 1 (2009): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x09990060.

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AbstractThrough a study of hitherto unexplored geography textbooks written in Bengali between 1845 and 1880, this paper traces the evolution of a geographic information system related to ethnicity, race, and space. This geographic information system impacted the mentality of emerging educated elites in colonial India who studied in the newly established colonial schools and played a critical role in developing and articulating ideas of the territorial nation-state and the rights of citizenship in India. The Bengali Hindu literati believed that the higher location of India in such a constructed

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SEN, UDITI. "The Myths Refugees Live By: Memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity." Modern Asian Studies 48, no. 1 (2013): 37–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x12000613.

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AbstractWithin the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy, and nostalgia. The refugees or, more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central agents of such narratives. This paper explores how the scholarship on East Bengali refugees portrays them either as hapless and passive victims of the regime of rehabilitation, which was designed to integrate refugees into the socio-economic fabric of India, or eulogizes them as heroic protagonists who successfully battled overwhelming adve

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ROY, HAIMANTI. "A Partition of Contingency? Public Discourse in Bengal, 1946–1947." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 6 (2009): 1355–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x08003788.

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AbstractThe historiography on the Partition of Bengal has tended to see it as a culmination of long-term trends of Hindu and Muslim communalism within the province. This essay offers a counter-narrative to the ‘inevitability’ of the Partition by focusing on Bengali public discourse in the months leading up to the Partition. The possibility of a division generated a large-scale debate amongst the educated in Bengal and they articulated their views by sending numerous letters to leading newspapers, district political and civic organizations and sometimes published pamphlets for local consumption

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Kumar, Nita. "Parna Sengupta . Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2011. Pp. x, 211. Cloth $65.00, paper $18.95." American Historical Review 117, no. 3 (2012): 838–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.117.3.838.

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Barik, Anamitra, Rajesh Kumar Rai, and Abhijit Chowdhury. "Tobacco use and self-reported morbidity among rural Indian adults." Primary Health Care Research & Development 17, no. 05 (2016): 514–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s146342361600013x.

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AimTo measure the prevalence of self-reported morbidity and its associated factors among adults (aged ⩾15 years) in a select rural Indian population.BackgroundSelf-reporting of smoking has been validated as population-based surveys using self-reported data provide reasonably consistent estimates of smoking prevalence, and are generally considered to be sufficiently accurate for tracking the general pattern of morbidity associated with tobacco use in populations. However, to gauge the true disease burden using self-reported morbidity data requires cautious interpretation.MethodsDuring 2010–2011

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Saha, Ranjana. "Milk, ‘Race’ and Nation: Medical Advice on Breastfeeding in Colonial Bengal." South Asia Research 37, no. 2 (2017): 147–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728017700186.

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This article analyses medical opinion about nursing of infants by memsahibs and dais as well as the Bengali-Hindu bhadramahila as the ‘immature’ child-mother and the ‘mature’, ‘goddess-like’ mother in the tropical environment of nineteenth and early twentieth century Bengal. It shows how the nature of lactation, breast milk and breastfeeding are socially constructed and become central to medical advice on motherhood and childcare aimed at regenerating community, ‘racial’ and/or national health, including manly vigour for imperial, colonial and nationalist purposes. In colonial Bengal, the topi

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Banerji, Chitrita. "The Propitiatory Meal." Gastronomica 3, no. 1 (2003): 82–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2003.3.1.82.

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This article is an analysis of the varied ways in which the meal has been used as a tool for appeasement and propitiation in Bengali Hindu society from ancient times. Bengal is a region that is naturally fertile and yet is often subjected to the fearsome destruction of floods and cyclones. The uncertainty of life has always been palpable here. The numerous rivers that make the region a delta also made Bengal the last hinterland of Aryan exploration and settlement in ancient times. Pre-Aryan inhabitants, whom historians describe as proto-Australoid, subscribed to animistic beliefs, which blurre

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Al Masum, Md Abdullah. "BENGALI MUSLIM WOMEN IN “ZENANA” EDUCATION SYSTEM: A HISTORICAL STUDY IN THE BRITISH PERIOD." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 54, no. 2 (2015): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v54i2.66.

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During the British period, there were different kinds of education system to make the retreated women society of Bengal into a leading class. “Zenana” education is one of its education processes. The word, “Zenana” derives from Persian and means “Harem” or inside the household. So, the education system of those women who live in Harem is called “Zenana” education system. Generally, the introduction of home education for the Bengali women began from the middle ages. But the “Zenana” education is the alternate form of the instruction of concealed women which was different from the existing home

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Khatiwada, Som Prasad. "SACRAMENT AS A CULTURAL TRAIT IN RAJVAMSHI COMMUNITY OF NEPAL." Researcher: A Research Journal of Culture and Society 3, no. 3 (2018): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/researcher.v3i3.21547.

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Rajvamshi is a local ethnic cultural group of eastern low land Nepal. Their traditional villages are scattered mainly in Morang and Jhapa districts. However, they reside in different provinces of West Bengal India also. They are said Rajvamshis as the children of royal family. Their ancestors used to rule in this region centering Kuchvihar of West Bengal in medieval period. They follow Hinduism. Therefore, their sacraments are related with Hindu social organization. They perform different kinds of sacraments. However, they practice more in three cycle of the life. They are naming, marriage and

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Sarkar, Abhishek. "Shakespeare, "Macbeth" and the Hindu Nationalism of Nineteenth-Century Bengal." Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 13, no. 28 (2016): 117–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mstap-2016-0009.

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The essay examines a Bengali adaptation of Macbeth, namely Rudrapal Natak (published 1874) by Haralal Ray, juxtaposing it with differently accented commentaries on the play arising from the English-educated elites of 19th Bengal, and relating the play to the complex phenomenon of Hindu nationalism. This play remarkably translocates the mythos and ethos of Shakespeare’s original onto a Hindu field of signifiers, reformulating Shakespeare’s Witches as bhairavis (female hermits of a Tantric cult) who indulge unchallenged in ghastly rituals. It also tries to associate the gratuitous violence of th

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Kalam, Mir Azad, Archana Mishra, Saptamita Pal, and Subho Roy. "Culture and Demography: A Micro Level Study Between Two Communities Residing in the City of Kolkata, West Bengal." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 20, no. 1 (2020): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x20913701.

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We aimed to study the demographic patterns of two contrasting communities, namely Bengali Hindu and Bihari Hindu groups, residing in adjacent clusters in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal. The former were the original inhabitants of Kolkata and the latter were a migrant group from the state of Bihar. We collected data from 164 ever-married females (Bengali [84] and Bihari [80]). Data on household information, demographic variables, and marital distance and preferences were collected using a well-tested schedule/questionnaire from ever-married females of both the groups. Some in-depth interviews

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Dasgupta, Doyel, Baidyanath Pal, and Subha Ray. "Factors that discriminate age at menopause: A study of Bengali Hindu women of West Bengal." American Journal of Human Biology 27, no. 5 (2015): 710–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22698.

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Bose, Kaushik, Arnab Ghosh, Sabyasachi Roy, and Somnath Gangopadhyay. "The relationship of age, body mass index and waist circumference with blood pressure in Bengalee Hindu male jute mill workers of Belur, West Bengal , India." Anthropologischer Anzeiger 63, no. 2 (2005): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/63/2005/205.

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Samanta, Suchitra. "The “Self-Animal” and Divine Digestion: Goat Sacrifice to the Goddess Kālī in Bengal." Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 3 (1994): 779–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2059730.

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Kālī, the Hindu goddess ‘Time,’ is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary rural and urban Bengali life and occupies a historic place as Calcutta's patron deity. Her prototypes go back to pre-Vedic India (Kinsley 1977:90; MacKenzie-Brown 1985:111). Kālī was incorporated into the orthodox Hindu textual tradition in the myths of the Devī-Māhātmya, or Candī, as this sixth-century A.D. text is known in Bengal. She subsequently became the chief divinity as Female Principle (Śakti, ‘Force’, ‘Creatrix’) in the esoteric Sākta Tantra cult, which was especially prevalent in eastern India around the sixtee

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DAS, SHINJINI. "AN IMPERIAL APOSTLE? ST PAUL, PROTESTANT CONVERSION, AND SOUTH ASIAN CHRISTIANITY." Historical Journal 61, no. 1 (2017): 103–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x17000024.

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AbstractThis article explores the locally specific (re)construction of a biblical figure, the Apostle St Paul, in India, to unravel the entanglement of religion with British imperial ideology on the one hand, and to understand the dynamics of colonial conversion on the other. Over the nineteenth century, evangelical pamphlets and periodicals heralded St Paul as the ideal missionary, who championed conversion to Christianity but within an imperial context: that of the first-century Roman Mediterranean. Through an examination of missionary discourses, along with a study of Indian (Hindu and Isla

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BANERJEE, SANDEEP, and SUBHO BASU. "Secularizing the Sacred, Imagining the Nation-Space: The Himalaya in Bengali travelogues, 1856–1901." Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (2014): 609–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000589.

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AbstractThis article examines changing conceptions of the Himalaya in nineteenth-century Bengali travelogues from that of a sacred space to a spatial metaphor of a putative nation-space. It examines sections of Devendranath Tagore's autobiography, written around 1856–58, before discussing the travelogues of Jaladhar Sen and Ramananda Bharati from the closing years of the nineteenth century. The article argues that for Tagore the mountains are the ‘holy lands of Brahma’, while Sen and Bharati depict the Himalaya with a political slant and secularize the space of Hindu sacred geography. It conte

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Ghosh, Arnab. "Discriminant analysis by anthropometric measures in elderly Bengalee Hindus of Calcutta, India." Anthropologischer Anzeiger 64, no. 1 (2006): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/64/2006/91.

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Chatterjee, Ananya. "An Experiential Study of ‘Conditional Agency’ of Bengali Widows with Reference to the Autobiographies of Saradasundari Devi and Rassundari Devi." ENSEMBLE 2, no. 2 (2021): 265–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.37948/ensemble-2021-0202-a027.

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Bengal emerged a new batch of educated widows who were distinguishable from the traditional Bengali Hindu widows because of their remarkable self-consciousness about their peripherality within the social order. The intention of my article is that of disputing the prevalent assumption of the homogeneity of the widowed experience in Bengal society by drawing attention to the heterogeneous individualities resulting from stratifications within these emergent widow populations, owing to different lifestyles, varying degree of access to education, d

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Bhatia, Varuni. "The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal." Journal of Hindu Studies 13, no. 1 (2020): 10–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiaa004.

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Abstract This article explores the intersections between Spiritualism, Mesmerism, and Bengali Vaishnavism in fin de siècle Bengal through the experiments in spirit communication conducted by the Ghosh family of Amrita Bazar Patrika Press fame. As a result of these engagements, the Amrita Bazar Patrika group proposed a novel understanding of Krishna Chaitanya/Gauranga (1486–1533) as a psychic who was able to channelize God through his unique powers of mediumship. It contributes to a nascent but growing body of scholarship around the relationship between religious modernity in colonial India and

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Kanrar, Priyanka, Nivedita Som, and Subho Roy. "A Study on Body Composition, Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar Levels Among Bengali Hindu and Santals Using Cultural Consonance Model." Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India 70, no. 1 (2021): 26–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277436x211008315.

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We examined how the perception/beliefs towards lifestyle and the actual lifestyle are related to body composition, blood pressure and blood sugar levels among Santals and Hindu caste populations using the cultural consonance model. The study involved 210 individuals (109 Bengali Hindu and 101 Santals), aged 18–50 years living in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. Principal component analyses were performed to extract the components from the variables used in perception towards lifestyle. Multiple linear regression analyses and multivariate analysis of covariance were used to understand as

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