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FictionFifty Six Thousand Square Miles
by Humayun Azad
Humayun Azad has not spoken of any person in this book. He sheds light on a country and a nation in extraordinary prose in the novel style. He presented a touching part of the present as well as the future. No one has been so bold about the land of the fifty six thousand square miles – Bangladesh. The truth is exposed in a candid manner. The artistic quality of the book is parallel to a very little in the Bengali literature.
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The Poet or The Condemned Eunuch
by Humayun Azad
What does the life of a modern poet look like? What dream, imagination, emotion or malaise give him the fuel to live, give him the taste of dark death? How much is he related, or not related, to life? Is life a clichéd dirty clothing to him which can be donated to his servant easily? Is it better not to be born or to die in the very first age of life? How much is a modern poet man, or eunuch? How much is he sentenced? After passing boyhood, the main protagonist of the book, Hasan Rashid, a young poet, goes ahead to poetry. He rejects an average mediocre life and chooses the impossible life of art. Beauty, continuous stir and nectar-like poison are always here. The violent antagonistic life of art takes extreme revenge on Hasan Rashid and makes him a eunuch. At last, Hasan yields to a life which is more tragic than death and more woeful than tragedy. Himself a poet, Humayun Azad explores the inner and outer object of the life of a modern poet. The Poet or the Condemned Eunuch is at the same time a poem and novel of unparalleled anguish. Novels with the name of poet are aplenty in Bengali language, but one on a real poet was very rare before this novel of Azad.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2022PARADISE LOST
A Contemporary History Of Kashmir 1947-2020
by Siddhartha Guha Ray
In 300 pages, a very concise distillation of the extremely complex history of Kashmir in the last 75 years, providing a well-researched and authoritative analysis on the roots and triggers of the conflict. Offering a comprehensive perspective about Kashmir’s unending strife through the telling of its narrative shaped by moments, events and multiple stakeholders, it is both scholarly and a great primer for those who want to understand the region’s ceaseless crisis. Anuradha Bhasin , Editor Kashmir Times Paradise Lost is a valuable contribution to understanding Kashmir, its complex past and its fractured and tortured present. Siddharta Guha Ray has deftly woven Kashmir's myriad threads together in a detailed and accessible book. David Barsamian Director Alternative Radio , USA “Dubiously known as "Paradise on Earth", Siddhartha Guha Ray's account presents the longhistory of disturbing details of deadly political turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, the north region ofthe Indian subcontinent. Ray meticulously describes the ever-tightening vice of ruthlesscompetitive domination by government and vigilante agents of India and Pakistan that havemade the region a veritable war zone from 1947 till now, with no advancing solution in sight." R.S. Ratner, ProfessorEmeritus, Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2010Human Rights in India
Historical Perspective and Challenges Ahead
by Edited by : Amit Bhattacharyya and Bimal Kanti Ghosh
Human rights- though seems to be a new genre- is as old as the human civilization. The quest for a dignified life has led people time and again to die in order to live . The present edited volume has unveiled the historical perspective of human rights and the challenges ahead from the ancient to the modern days of Indian history. The present discourse is a ready reference material for the students of History, Political Science , activists of Civil Rights organizations and Non-governmental organizations, Government policy- makers, Advocates, and general readers.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2022VOICES from the UNDERGROUND
Select Naxalite Documents 1965-71
by Amit Bhattacharyya
Naxalbari exploded many a myth. The upheaval was such that nothing remained the same after Naxalbari. People had to readjust their position vis-a-vis every aspect of the system, political, administrative, military, cultural ”— Samar Sen. How prophetic was the above statement! A section of the toiling masses still keeps hope in the undying spirit of the movement. The Government, on the other, is pursuing administrative, legal, and military policies to contain the discontent of the teeming multitudes. This volume is the first in the series where select documents of the Naxalbari movement as well as thought-provoking debates are compiled.The present volume contains seventeen documents written by the pioneers of the first stage of the movement– articles of Charu Mazumder, Saroj Dutta, Suniti Kumar Ghosh, and Sushital Roychowdhury. General readers, activists, scholars, and policymakers will find this volume a ready reference for the study of the movement and its inherent dynamics.
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March 2012MODERN SOCIAL THINKERS
by Pradip Basu
This book works on modern social thinkers who have articulated their deeper thought about society as a whole or any aspect thereof. They have worked within the modern social perspective of new historical as well as intellectual developments, which began to surface with the European Renaissance of the 14-16th centuries. Some of the thinkers chose to legitimize modernity. Others live within modernity but critique modernity’s specific aspects from their own points of view-they are still modern social thinkers in the sense that their thoughts and premises amerged within the larger contours of the modern world. Twenty researchers from India and abroad have contributed their unpublished, original and referenced articles on the following thinkers: Karl Marx, Karl Popper, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Jurgen Habernas, Luce Irigaray, Raymond Williams, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Zygmunt Bauman, Alasdair Maclntyre, Bertolt Brecht, Sudipta Kaviraj, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, C. Wright Mills, Bade Onimode, Fatima Mernissi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ernesto De Martion. The book will cater to the needs of the advanced post-graduate, M.Phil. and Ph.D. students as well as teachers. Editor Pradip Basu: Ph.D. on Naxalism:Faculty, Scottish Church College; Gust faculty, Post Graduate departments of Political science and Philosophy, Calcutta University; author/edited books: Towards Naxalbari, Discourses on Naxalite Movement, postmodernism Marxism Postcolonialism, Colonial Modernity, Avenel Companion to Modern Social Theorists, Red on Silver: Naxalites in Cinema etc.
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August 2013Is The Torch Passing? Resistance and Revolution in China & India
by Robert Weil
Building on his extensive studies of China and the struggle for socialism, Robert Weil examines the revolutionary and popular movements in India. Through his analysis we witness the courage, endurance, and persistence of the Indian and Chinese people, as a basis for our revolutionary optimism. He also foresees the possibility of popular movements and Maoists in both countries joining forces to fight their common enemy and win. Anyone who is seriously concerned about the future of these two great nations should read: Is the Torch Passing? Pao-yu of Economics Emerita at Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan, USA Robert Weil unfolds the dialectical relation between the concept of social transformation and revolutionary praxis and once again with persuasive argument reaffirms the import of people’s struggles in realizing just political governance. A must read for activists,students and researchers of social movements and critical studies in social science. Swapna Banerjee-Guhsa,Professor of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai A Clear, direct account of the revolutionary tradition in China and India, placing the Cultural Revolution and Naxalbari in the line of the Paris Commune and October. Will help cut through the maze of postcolonial and ‘end oh history’ ideologies. Saroj Giri, Associate Professor of Political Science, Delhi University, New Delhi.
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January 2015ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN BENGAL
by Hem Chandra Kanungo
Hem Chandra’s patriotism was not inspired by the ‘mother-in-bondage’ image of the country or by the accounts of her past glory. He loved his country not because what she was in the past, but because it was only natural for him to love his own country. Since countries like Italy and Russia used secret societies for freedom struggle and even in the Bore War the secret society played a crucial role, Hem Chandra thought that the “Bore method” was quite suited to our condition, and we decided to form secret societies.” Hem Chandra’s account had drawn the attention of the Intelligence Branch as it contained strong criticism of the leadership of Aurobindo and Barindra and the religious influence on the movement for which the leaders were held solely responsible. The IB was prompted to translate the account not so much for information but for examining the potentiality of the Marxist standpoint from which the criticism was made in containing individual terrorism. We have retained the exhaustive notes of the IB and have added, wherever necessary, new editorial notes on the basis of information now available, and a long account of Hem Chandra’s life. The book first published more than 85 years ago, still stands out as an honest and forthright memoir of the revolutionary movement. Unpublished letters, rare photographs, copy of Barrindra’s confession etc will be off interest to the scholars in general.
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January 2018The ‘Spring Thunder’ and Kolkata
An epic story of courage and sacrifice 1965-72
by Amit Bhattacharya
The city of Kolkata was known as a city of processions and demonstrations until the ‘Spring Thunder’ crashed over Naxalbari in 1967. Since then, this historic city–shot down many a time–witnessed a saga of heroic struggles, undying revolutionary optimism and self-sacrifice. Inspired by Mao Tse-tung Thought and Charu Mazumdar, radical youth, students and workers rebelled against reaction to ‘make the ’70s the decade of Liberation’ in a way never seen before or after. This is the first modest attempt at writing the history of the city during that tumultuous phase. It includes rare photographs of activists, buildings and columns of importance and cover pages of original Party booklets and leaflets.
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December 2017REFUGEES & TERROR
A Case Study of Germany
by Jyotirmoy Banerjee
Germany faces an existential crisis. The leading country of the European Union welcomed the avalanche of refugees from West Asia and North Africa. A record number of asylum seekers exceeding one million descended upon the richest country in Europe last year. The key country at the heart of Europe today is split on the issue. The rapid rise of the right-wing parties and movements there has polarised the society, which is symbolic of similar split across Europe. This study delves into the details of the dynamics that is still unfolding. It focuses on the problems that Germany is facing from the refugee crisis and related terrorism. It discusses the opinions of prominent publicists and political leaders on the dilemma. It brings to focus the tools, both hard and soft, that Berlin is using to manage the massive problem that threatens to tear German society apart. Besides, it compares the experience of India whenever appropriate. The volume also attempts to lay bare the factors that are responsible for influencing the youth to opt for terrorist ideology.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2019The Revolution and the French Establishments in India (1790-1793)
by Marguerite V. Labernadie
When, on February 22, 1790, a French barge by the name of ‘Bienvenue’ came ashore Pondichéry with the news of the events in Paris around the meeting of the Estates General, the storming of the Bastille and the abolition of feudal rights; it sent out a wave of topsy-turving repercussions amongst both the French and the English colonial administrations in India. Excited with the newly found principles that were inherent in the cries of the Revolution in France, yet, not knowing their precise socio-political extents and implications, each of the five French settlements on the Indian subcontinent came to create their own individual ‘revolutions’ – periods of mostly confusing and sometimes violent socio-political upheaval. Wellesley, on the other hand, fearing the influence of the principles of the French Revolution on the employees of the English East India Company, asked his superiors in London for the establishment of a college in Fort William in order to train men in the service of the Company against such ‘erroneous principles’. How do these revolutions in each of the French settlements in India – in some ways, mirror events of the 1789 Revolution in the metropolis – unfold? Where, exactly, did the universalist values of the Revolution find its boundaries when applied in contemporaneous colonial India? And how were the diametrically opposite values of imperial and republican France sought to be accommodated in such a context? Labernadie’s intricately detailed narrative from 1930 developed out of a privileged access to the French colonial administrative (yet unpublished) archives and correspondences based in Pondichéry, along with the contemporary interventions of Jacques Weber and Hari Shankar Vasudevan ensure a volume that is not only rich in material resources, but also intellectually nourishing; compelling its readers to reflect on questions of transcolonial experiences and mixed modernities in colonial India, as much as the very consequences of a revolution that fundamentally changed the manner in which politics came to be thought of thence.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2014ESSAYS IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
by Nupur Dasgupta
The present volume comprising thirteen articles cover aspects the history of science, technology and medicine from the ancient to the modern period. It focuses on the scope and cultural oriental orientations in science, history of different branches of colonial Indian. The roles of technology in cultural nationalism, the scene of plural medicine in colonial Bengal and evolution of some indigenous pharmaceutical companies have been discussed in the discourse. It includes articles on the emerging role of ‘assistive technology’ for the disabled, a critique of government policy on healthcare in contemporary India and the history of healthcare institutions in ancient India. It will be of interest to researchers and general readers.
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May 2012War and Peace in Junglemahal : People, State and Maoists
by Editor- Biswajit Roy
A large part of tribal homeland across India, from Dandakaranya in central India to Junglemahal in West Bengal, has been witnessing a civil war between the central/state governments and the banned CPI(Maoist). Half-hearted attempts have been made to hold peace talks between the warring sides from Andhra Pradesh in 2004 to Bengal in 2011 but have ended in killing of key Maoist leaders. As the blame game continues, civil society remains bitterly divided on which side has failed peace. This collection of essays, by well-known activists and academics including the mediators, examines the failed peace initiatives in the context of the governments’ elitist ‘developmental’ policies, doublespeak of the parliamentary parties and Maoists’ follies. Dissecting the paradigms of peace, role of civil society and peace mediators, they offer wide range of views on Maoist violence vis-à-vis State violence while reflecting on the debates about democracy under red power and autonomy of grassroots movements and organisations. Students and teachers of contemporary South Asian history, studies in development and conflicts, policy researchers, activists, journalists and other discerning readers will find this book particularly helpful.
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February 2017NAXALITE POLITICS
POST-STRUCTURALIST, POSTCOLONIAL AND SUBALTERN PERSPECTIVES
by Pradip Basu
Indeed, the upheaval was such that nothing remained the same after Naxalbari. People had to readjust their position vis-à-vis every aspect of the system: political, administrative, military, cultural” (Samar Sen). Hence, it is no wonder that various schools of thought gave rise to new understandings of the movement and the social system. This book is a pioneer inter-disciplinary work which probes into the Naxalite movement from the new post-structuralist, postcolonialist and subaltern perspectives. In the research papers incorporated in this book, Naxalite politics has been studied using several new theoretical tools- Lacanian psychoanalysis, Foucauldian bio- power, discourse, genealogy and archaeology, Derridean deconstruction, spectrality, postcolonial anamnesis, politics of taxonomy, sexual subalternity, luminal space, representation, subaltern praxis and others.
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January 2013Understanding Maoists
NOTES OF A PARTICIPANT OBSERVER FROM ANDHRA PRADESH
by N. VENUGOPAL
Though Andhra Pradesh occupies a major place in the Maoist movement, a commensurate and comprehensive account on the origin and growth of the movement is not available. There has been a felt need for such a comprehensive narration of the multi-layered movement for a long time. This volume of collected essays chronicling various aspects of the Maoist movement in the state is a step in the direction of developing such a work.
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February 2014URBANITY AND ECONOMY
The Pre Modern Dynamics in Eastern India
by RATNABALI CHATTERJEE
The Volume is an effort to address the issue of the growth and development of Urbanization in the region from the Proto-historic period right up to the medieval time. The transformation of rural economy into urban economy is a complex process while the variables of those forces are the major contributing factors largely determining the nature, shape and character of an urban growth. In a vast country like India, the development of material in the numerous ecological zones. From the pre-historic period, regional forces played the most significant role in the development of Indian culture. In this anthology the researchers have investigated the process of urbanization in specific context within this region. They have also focused on the economic factors, especially trade, which determines the course and momentum of urbanization. The discourse will provide the readers a review of the scope of current research on the subject.Chief Editor, Ratnabali Chatterjee, retired as Professor, Department of Islamic History and Culture, Chief Editor, Ratnabali Chatterjee, retired as Professor, Department of Islamic History and Culture, University of Calcutta in 2006 and honorary Director of Women’s Studies Research Center, member of Women’s Commission, West Bengal.
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January 2016Storming The Gates Of Heaven
The Maoist Movement in India A Critical Study 1972-2014
by AMIT BHATTACHARYA
The Maoist movement in India is one of the longest surviving communist revolutionary movements in the history of the world. Born in 1967, has been able to withstand state brutality for so long and rose like a phoenix from the ashes time and again implies the existence of some deep-rooted socio-economic needs that the existing system has failed to satisfy. Today, every protest is identified with ‘Maoism’, every dissident voice is being branded by the powers-that-be and sections of the corporate media as ‘Maoist’. ‘Maoism’ in India has, for good or bad, been identified with the fight for dignity, justice and human values. This is a modest attempt at the first-ever comprehensive history of the movement made by a professional historian. This movement is not the tale of’senseless violence, but an epic story to create a beautiful world free from exploitation, greed and bloodshed altogether. Hitherto untapped material has been used to analyze the bitter struggle between MCC and CPI(MLI Party Unity and CPI(MLI People’s War and the formation of the CPI(Maoist). Its impact on society, culture and historical study, Bhojpur struggle role of woman warriors with entirely new approaches to man-woman relationships radical mass organizations. Emergence of Maoism and the pro-people development model in Dandakaranya have been discussed in detail. This movement, successful, is likely to make a deep impression everywhere in India and abroad. A chapter on Primary Sources, rare photographs of places–Naxalbari killing, Charu Mazumdar’s residence, of cover pages of forbidden literature and a list of departed woman activists further enriched the quality of the book. The main title of the book is borrowed from Karl Marx who hailed the Communards of Paris for daring to”Storm the Gates of Heaven” in 1871.
