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Biography of a 19th century landowner of Bengal.
Rejecting simplified notions of 'civilizational clashes', this book argues for a new perspective on Hindu, Muslim, and colonial power relations in India. Using archival sources from London, Delhi, and Hyderabad, the book makes use of interviews, private family records and princely-colonial records uncovered outside of the archival repositories.
Chitta Panda examines the interaction between the landed aristocracy in nineteenth-century Bengal and colonial rule. With reference to Midnapore district the book questions the standard assumption that, as collaborators, Zamindars prospered under colonial rule, and argues that they passed through a prolonged crisis in the period 1870-1920, with a gradual decline in their social power.
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Satyajit Ray was India's first film-maker to gain international recognition as a master of the medium, and today he continues to be regarded as one of the world's finest directors of all time. This book looks at his work.