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The Guiding Light
On the life of Anukūlacandra, 1888-1969, Hindu religious leader from Bengal.
The Girl Child in the Life, Lore and Literature of Bengal
Contemporary children’s literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. The rare fictional girls who show resilience and demand a normal childhood are consciously silenced, or contained and assimilated within unwritten masculinist norms. This book –a compilation of translated works of the author, critic and academic, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay –focuses on gender and childhood in Bengal. The book includes a translation of his Bangla Shishusahityer Chhoto Meyera (Little Girls in Bangla Children’s Literature), as well as a translated essay on T...
The Indian Practice
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Never Give Up
Born to an upper middle class family, Mrinmoy Bhattacharyya lost his mother and became a refugee before he was eight years old. The Partition of India in 1947 forced him to relocate to West Bengal from East Pakistan, in utter penury. This is the story of how he worked his way up from there to the helm of the college and university teachers' movement in India, helping make a positive change to the working conditions of millions in the teaching profession. The entire journey of his life is narrated by threading together numerous poignant moments and events, making the book acompelling read from the first chapter.
The Disinherited
An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion "panic" that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire's Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small--Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India's population during the nineteenth century--Bengal's majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the per...
Smart Cities
This book discusses the basic principles of sustainable development in a smart city ecosystem to better serve the life of citizens. It examines smart city systems driven by emerging IoT-powered technologies and the other dependent platforms. Smart Cities: AI, IoT Technologies, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Platforms, and Cybersecurity Techniques discusses the design and implementation of the core components of the smart city ecosystem. The editors discuss the effective management and development of smart city infrastructures, starting with planning and integrating complex models and diverse frameworks into an ecosystem. Specifically the chapters examine the core infrastructure elements, includin...
