Mostly About Bengal : Essays in Modern South Asian History

This volume contains essays Mostly About Bengal written by the author over a period of fifteen years: 1.The Regional Elites: A Theory of Modern Indian History 2.The Partition of Bengal: A Problem in British Administration, 1830-1912 3.A Plea for the Study of the Indian Provincial Legislatures 4.The Vote and the Transfer of Power: A Study of the Bengal General Election, 1912-1913 5.The Forgotten Majority: The Bengal Muslims and September 1918 6.The Non-Cooperation Decision of 1920: A Crisis in Bengal Politics 7.Four Lives: History as Biography 8. Gandhi: A Twentieth-century Anomaly? 9. The Social and Institutional Bases of Politics in Bengal, 1906-1947 10.Peasant Mobilization in Twentieth-century Bengal 11.The Rural Parvenu: A Report of Research in Progress These articles were published in different journals outside India which were hard to get in India.