JBS Microhistory Issue Vol.4, No.2

After the proud publications of our issues on Ognijug (Vol. 1, No.1), Bengali Cinema (Vol.1, No.2), Bengali Theatre (Vol.2, No.1), Science and Technology in History: Modern Bengali Perspectives (Vol.2, No.2), Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (Vol.3, No.1) Kolkata (Vol.3, No.2),  Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music  (Vol.4, No.1),  Journal of Bengali Studies is happy to announce the online publication of its Winter Issue 2015 on the theme of Microhistory: Bengali Perspectives on the occasion of the Day of Storming Headquarters, 8 December 2015. 

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Journal of Bengali Studies  (ISSN: 2277-9426)
 Vol. 4, No. 2    
8 December 2015  
Day of Storming Headquarters   
 21 Ogrohayon 1422  
Winter Issue  

 Microhistory: Bengali Perspectives  

Editor: Tamal Dasgupta     
  

Contents  

 Editorial 7  

 Commentary  

Towards a Microhistoriography of Bengali People: Excavating the Ruins of Remembrance and Forgetting     
Tamal Dasgupta 9  

Localizing Texts and Textualizing Locations: A Survey of  the Historical Geography of Nabadwip  
Somnath Sarkar 17  

 Article  

Evolution of Folk Songs of Twentieth Century Bengal  
Sayantan Thakur 21  

Patni  System and Subinfeudation Rights in Bankura  
Arundhuti Sen 26  

Situating Ramaprasad Chanda  
Rahul Kumar Mohanta 38  

Changing Role of Women in Vaishnavite Cult of 17th Century Bengal  
Laboni Sarkar 47  

Mythology and Folklore of Water Resources in Bengal  
Sourav Maity 52  
   
The Bengali Othello in Pre-Independence Newspapers: The Question of Race and Hybridity  
Abhishek Chowdhury 60  

Vaidyas of Bengal 
 Raibatak Sen Gupta 74  
   

 Review 

A Review of Jyotirmoy Roy's History of Manipur  
Sanjay S. Ningombam 110