All history has now been accommodated in Social History. The History of mankind emerges from the society to which it belongs. This book has been composed in that spirit. It has two parts. The first section is the study of the sub-structure or the material background from which all our institutions and ideas emergence. As our country is primarily agrarian, this book begins with an essay on the 'Agrarian Structure of the Economy'.
It has not been merely subsistence agriculture. It had considerable differentiation in the agrarian economy. On the one hand, the rentier landlord class dominated it from the top. On the other hand, the rising rich peasant class or rural parvenu began to dominate the economy and started to assert themselves in political and social sectors.
In the business sector the Bengali businessmen who started as compradors to British capitalists gradually became self-reliant and started nationalist enterprise. In the heyday of Swadeshi movement a whole gamut of Swadeshi enterprises emerged. They not only did merchant capitalism but also industrial capitalism. They even established national banks and insurance companies to mobilise capital. Their enterprise influenced social history of the period. As a result, there was a happy ambience for literary efforts. The flowering of the Bengal Renaissance took place in this period. It had in its sweep all aspects of social history that is social reform and regeneration and literary achievements of the highest order. As economic avenues were gradually blockaded by the British rule, the frustration of the Bengali middle class gave vent to nationalism. Beginning as a cultural movement, but ending in political nationalism the political history of the period is twisted by the British policy of divide and rule as the authority rallied the moderates first and then the Muslims and then finally the scheduled caste. The book contains all these aspects of the chequered social history of colonial Bengal.
Dr. Chittabrata Palit is a former professor of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and the Director of the Institute of Historical Studies and the Founder-Director of Corpus Research Institute. He is an alumnus of Presidency College & Calcutta University with First Class in both History (Hons.) and M. A. in Modern History. He was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship to go to Cambridge University for his Ph.D. He completed his work on ""Tensions in Bengal Rural Society 1830 1860' under the supervision of legendary Professor Eric Stokes. He is an internationally known historian with more than 80 books in English and Bengali to his credit. He is the recipient of Fulbright visiting fellowship to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (1981) and Touson State University Touson Maryland (1994). He is affectionately known as a 'Nineteenth Centurian' to the academic community.
All history has now been accommodated in Social History The History of mankind emerges from the society to which it belongs. This book has been composed in that spirit. It has two parts. The first section is the study of the sub-structure or the material background from which all our institutions and ideas emerge As our country is primarily agrarian, this book begins with an essay on the ""Agrarian Structure of the Economy.
It has not merely been subsistence agriculture. It had considerable differentiation in the agrarian economy. On the one, the rentier landlord class dominated it from the top. On the other, the rising rich peasant class of rural parvenu began to dominate the economy and started to assert themselves in political and social sectors.
In the business sector, the Bengali businessmen who started as compradors to British capitalists gradually became self-reliant and started nationalist enterprise. In the heyday of Swadeshi movement a whole gamut of Swadeslu enterprises emerged. They not only did merchant capitalism but also industrial capitalism. They even established national banks and insurance companies to mobilise capital. Their enterprise influenced social history of the period. Asa result, there was a happy ambience for literary efforts. The flowering of the Bengal Renaissance took place in this period. It had in its sweep all aspects of social history that is social reform and regeneration and literary achievements of the highest order. As economic avenues were gradually blockaded by the British rule, the frustration of the Bengali middle class gave vent to nationalism. Beginning as a cultural movement, but ending in political nationalism. The political history of the period is twisted by the British policy of divide and rule as the authority rallied the moderates first and then the Muslims and then finally the scheduled caste. The book contains all these aspects of the chequered social history of Colonial Bengal.
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