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History as Biography
Indian Provincial Legislatures
Modern Indian History
Partition of Bengal
Politics in Bengal
Rural Parvenu
Transfer of Power
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- ISBN 9789390035069
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume contains essays Mostly About Bengal written by the author over a period of fifteen years: 1. The Regional Elites: A Theory of Modern Indian History 2. The Partition of Bengal: A Problem in British Administration, 1830-1912 3. A Plea for the Study of the Indian Provincial Legislatures 4. The Vote and the Transfer of Power: A Study of the Bengal General Election, 1912-1913 5. The Forgotten Majority: The Bengal Muslims and September 1918 6. The Non-Cooperation Decision of 1920: A Crisis in Bengal Politics 7. Four Lives: History as Biography 8. Gandhi: A Twentieth-century Anomaly? 9. The Social and Institutional Bases of Politics in Bengal, 1906-1947 10. Peasant Mobilization in Twentieth-century Bengal 11. The Rural Parvenu: A Report of Research in Progress These articles were published in different journals outside India which were hard to get in India.
John Broomfield was Professor of modern Indian history at the University of Michigan for twenty years and has written extensively on the impact of the modern West on non-Western peoples.
