Rethinking the Local in Indian History by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
This volume looks at the concept of the local in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region.Kaustubh Mani Sengupta teaches History at Bankura University, India. He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a post-doctoral fellow for two years at the Transnational Research Group on ‘Poverty and Education in India’ funded by Max Weber Stiftung, Germany. His research focuses on the urban history of South Asia, the early colonial state in India and the history of infrastructure and space.
Tista Das teaches History at Bankura University, India. She obtained her PhD from the Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. She has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research interests include histories of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, migration, resettlement and ways and means of reading violence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367514136 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367514133 |
| Title | Rethinking the Local in Indian History |
| Author | Kaustubh Mani Sengupta |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 226 |
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