This book includes following subjects
Contents
1.Preface and Acknowledgements
2.Introduction
Memorabilia
3.Devi Prasad Sinha (1915-1999)
4.As I Saw My Teacher Dr D. P. Sinha and Few Memories of My Department
5.D.P. Sinha: A Short Biographical Sketch
6.Early European Writers on Sri lanka
(Reproduced from The Historical Review, Vol.2, No. 2,1987)
Essays
7.Francis Buchanan Hamilton Digging up the Sources of Microhistory
8.History of Science in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern India
9.The Coming of Tea to India, to Darjeeling
10.Enigma, that is Harappan Civilization
11.Impact of Gandhian Movement on the Subaltern people of North Bengal: A Study 12.Environmental Awareness in Ancient India: A Sociohistorical Analysis
13.The Janakabhu of the Pala Dynasty: A Critical Note
14.Sikkim and India’s Border Trade and Political Security
15.Kalidasa A Poet par excellence
16.Along the Dusty Road’: Collecting the Sources of Local History
17.Unique Treasures of Archaeology from Natsal in Tamluk
18.A Brief View of the Trade and Commerce of the Western Kamta-Koch Kingdom from the 18th Century to the Early Part of the 19th Century
19.Balurghat: Biography of a Mufassil Town 20.Talking about Class in Tea Gardens of Jalpaiguri District – Sharit Bhowmick Then and Now
21.Indigenous Banking System in Colonial North Bengal
22.Uncertainty in Mobility: Rajbansi Royalty and the Rajbansi Mass-A Study of the Cooch Behar Princely State
23.Bengal Revolutionaries and Burma: Swadeshi, Boycott and Extremism
24.A Search in the History of Ayurvedic Medicinal System in North Bengal: Its Prospects and Possibilities
25.Fazlul Haque, his Progressive Coalition Ministry and the Quit India Movement in Bengal
26.Heaith under the Cooch Behar Raj: A Study on the Traditional and Modern Healing System of Cooch Behar State
27.Approaches and Perspectives in Indian Environmental Thinking: A Historical and Comparative Analysis
28.Representation of Women in Partition Narratives: A Postcolonial Perspective
29.Forest Resource Management and Lepcha Tribal Forest Culture: A Study in the Context of Colonial Darjeeling(1865-1947)
30.History of Science and technology: Study and Research in North Bengal during Colonial and Post-Colonial Period
31.Index 461
32.About the Contributors