| Year | February 2022 |
| Pages | IV+164 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Size | Demy octave |
| ISBN | 978-81-953908-0-9 |
Memoirs as History
History is not about emperors, their victories and defeats. History is about subjects, who are ruled and remain a part and parcel of a society. Autobiographies, personal memoirs throw light on the authors’ contemporary times as well as reflect their mental pre occupation towards the society. Personal interpretation of a society with all its limitations has emerged as a definite tool to have an insight to interpret the past. This is a journey from particular to general as opposed to general to particular. This edited volume is a collection of articles based on two biographies, an autobiography, women’s self-writing, government documents, tribal narratives which are discussed with reference to Bengal. The discourse would leave an important mark in extracting history from the personal accounts, that will definitely foster further inquisition and ideas of the blooming researchers.
Editor’s Note : Memoirs as History: Contextualizing Bengal
Hospitals in Urban Biography: Public Health and Foundation of Hospitals in Early Colonial Calcutta (1707-1854) Srilata Chatterjee
A History of Intimacy through Women’s Self-Writings in Colonial Bengal Aparna Bandyopadhyay
Reflections on History, Nation and Gender in Binodini Dasi’s Autobiography: Amar Katha Nirmal Bandyopadhyay
Inter-relation between History & Biography: Exploring Nineteenth Century History in Sivnath Sastri’s Biographical Writing Sumita Chakraborty
Representation of Birds in the Jahangirnama: Narratives and Visuals Debraj Chakraborty 80 Green Regimes and Colonial Pasts: Vignettes of Botanical Garden and Histories of Marginalised People, C. 1890-1970. Dr. Sahara Ahmed
A Short Biography of Tan-Yunshan: Retrieving from Archival Documents Dr. Arpita Bose
Exploring Santal Interface with Nature and Culture Pradip Chattopadhyay
Edited by Pradip Chattopadhyay, Aparajita Dhar and Binata Sarkar
Editors Pradip Chattopadhyay, Aparajita Dhar and Binata Sarkar teach in the department of History, Burdwan University.
Subject: History/Memoir/Politics
