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Makers of Jadavpur
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Makers of Jadavpur: A Technological Perspective
This volume is authored by Rajat K. Baisya, alumnus of the department of Food Technology and Biochemical Engineering and a distinguished scholar, author and management consultant. The foundations of Jadavpur university and its origins as a technological institution imagined in a nationalist mould, established as a counter to the colonial British education and as a part of the movement for independence, are relatively well-known. What is less explored is the journey that the National Council of Education underwent to transform itself into the Jadavpur University. As a premier institution of higher learning in India at the present time, Jadavpur University has a number of stalwart professors to thank for its worldwide reputation. This book covers the biographies of twenty-two such professors of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. Written from the ‘technological perspective’, the book attempts to trace a form of history of Jadavpur University through the microhistories of the individuals responsible for its beginnings and subsequent growth.
Ethics
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The Kasiikavrrtti of Jayaditya-Vamana A Complete Exposition of Panini’s Astadhyayi
Pāṇini’s monumental grammar Aṣṭādhyāyī, embodied in nearly 4000 cryptic statements called sūtra-s, remains incomprehensible without the aid of detailed explanations and commentaries. The Kāśikāvṛtti, a Sanskrit work ascribed to Jayāditya and Vāmana of about the 7th century CE, stands out among the great mass of commentarial literature as the only exposition that covers all the sūtra-s in their Pāṇinian sequence. It is marked by its lucid explanations, simplicity of style, abundance of illustrative examples, and a profound awareness of grammatical works that preceded it, like the Mahābhāṣya and Cāndra-Vyākaraṇa. The Kāśikāvṛtti has there...
Petrarch
Revised version of papers presented at the major conference held at Jadavpur University in 2004.
Subaltern Squibs and Sentimental Rhymes: the Raj Reflected in Light Verse
This is the first anthology to be devoted exclusively to light verse composed by British authors in undivided India, plus a few items illustrating parallel experiences in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Written overwhelmingly by the junior ranks of the military and civil service, these works constitute a ‘running commentary’ on the Raj from below. The typical subaltern liked to picture himself as unduly put upon, unfairly ignored, and inexplicably underrated. Before departure for India, the impressionable heads of young recruits could all too easily be filled with stories of immense fortunes to be easily made by ‘shaking the Pagoda Tree’. Once in India, such dreams quickly evaporated for a va...
Calcutta after Independence: a Personal Memoir
In this lively and engaging reminiscence, eminent economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen recalls his college days in Calcutta in the 1950s, and his subsequent joining of the economics department of the fledgling Jadavpur University a few years later. The text of this volume is based on a public lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at Gandhi Bhaban, Jadavpur University, on 5 July 2019.
Tyranny and Usurpation
In the middle years of the 16th century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant by entrie' or the usurper, who supplanted earlier 'tyrant by the administration' as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own 'virtue' and through an act of 'lawmaking' violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the 16th century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. Devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in 16th-century drama and politics, this book will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.
Living with Disasters
This book is a critical account of the disconnected nature of governance, conservation and livelihood initiatives in the Indian Sundarbans, an active delta that spreads over 25,500 sq. km across India and Bangladesh and lies in the Bay of Bengal. It draws a holistic picture of the disaster-prone delta in eastern India, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also one of the largest tracts of mangrove forests in the world. The author juxtaposes the vulnerable lives and frequently displaced existence of the islanders against the dominant strategies of conservation and development followed by the state.
