Modern Bengal Research Articles

The politics of madness the construction and manipulation of the ‘Baul’ image in modern Bengal

(1999). The politics of madness the construction and manipulation of the ‘Baul’ image in modern Bengal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 13-46.

The Performer and the Listener: Kathakatā in Modern Bengal

The Performer and the Listener: Kathakatā in Modern Bengal

The Death of an Uncrowned King—C. R. Das and Political Crisis in Twentieth-Century Bengal

These observations, which open a widely read essay on primitive religion, might with equal profit be applied to the comparative study of complex societies. They suggest an unusual descriptive project: to catalog the threats to social order in particular cultures in order to make revealing comparisons. They also imply that, armed with such a catalog, unusual meanings might be wrung out of recurrent disasters and common dilemmas. Such a project has not been ventured for South Asia, and I should like to begin with modern Bengal, but the embarassment arises that I am not confident I possess the “active principles” of Bengali culture. It is only by taking up acknowledged instances of “dangers,” “cataclysms,” and “disasters” that I expect to be able to reason back to ordering concepts and thus to complete the catalog. In the course of this short essay, however, only one specific calamity—the death of C. R. Das, a charismatic Indian politician—can be examined in detail. If I succeed in showing that this one calamity has a hitherto unrealized significance in modern Bengal, perhaps the reader will grant that the role of relatedcalamities in Bengal, and even in the whole of modern India, has not been insignificant.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–44. By Paul R. Greenough. Oxford University Press: New York, 1982. Pp. xix, 342. £29.

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Book reviews

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Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvii, 275 pp. Appendixes, List of Works Consulted, Index. $37.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvii, 275 pp. Appendixes, List of Works Consulted, Index. $37. - Volume 42 Issue 4

Submarine Fan Sedimentation, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma: ABSTRACT

More than 10,000 m (33,000 ft) of interbedded sandstones and shales comprise the Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian flysch succession (Stanley, Jackford, Johns Valley, Atoka) in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Deposited primarily by turbidity current and hemipelagic processes in bathyal and abyssal water depths, these strata form major submarine fan complexes that prograded in a westerly direction along the axis of an elongate remnant ocean basin that was associated with the collision and suturing of the North American and African plates. A longitudinal fan system is visualized as the depositional framework for these strata which were deposited in a setting analagous to the modern Bengal fan of the Indian Ocean. Facies analysis of the Jackfork Sandstone indicates that inner fan deposits are present in the vicinity of Little Rock, Arkansas; middle fan distributary channel and crevasse splay deposits occur at DeGray Dam, Arkansas; and outer fan depositional lobe deposits are present in southeastern Oklahoma. Basin plain equivalents are postulated to exist as far away as the Marathon region in west Texas. Boulder-bearing units (olistostromes) with exotic clasts were shed laterally into the Ouachita basin, primarily from its northern margin. These olistostromes occur throughout the fan succession in all facies (i.e., inner, middle, and outer fan). This relationship may serve as a useful criterion for recognizing similar fan systems in the rock record. End_of_Article - Last_Page 517------------

References Cited

References Cited

Modern Bengal: A Socio-economic Survey. Edited by S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1973. 97 pp. Rs. 12.00; $3.00

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Modern Bengal: A Socio-economic Survey. Edited by S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1973. 97 pp. Rs. 12.00; $3.00

Modern Bengal: A Socio-economic Survey. Edited by S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1973. 97 pp. Rs. 12.00; $3.00

Modern Bengal: A Socio-Economic Survey.

Modern Bengal: A Socio-Economic Survey.

The Origin of Heresy in Hindu Mythology

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Origin of Heresy in Hindu MythologyWendy Doniger O'FlahertyWendy Doniger O'Flaherty Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 10, Number 4May, 1971 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/462634 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 10Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1971 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Johannes Bronkhorst The Structure of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha, Journal of Indian Philosophy 49, no.44 (Jun 2021): 523–534.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-021-09474-1Cogen Bohanec Bhaktivedānta Swami and Buddhism: a Case Study for Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding, Journal of Dharma Studies 4, no.11 (Aug 2021): 91–113.https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-021-00104-3Krishna Mohan Shrimali Heresy, heterodoxy and nonconformism in early India, Studies in People's History 7, no.11 (Mar 2020): 5–22.https://doi.org/10.1177/2348448920908235Joel Bordeaux Blood in the Mainstream: Kālī Pūjā and Tantric Orthodoxy in Early Modern Bengal, International Journal of Hindu Studies 23, no.22 (Jun 2019): 151–164.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-019-09257-0Michael S. Allen Dueling Dramas, Dueling Doxographies: The Prabodhacandrodaya and Saṃkalpasūryodaya, The Journal of Hindu Studies 9, no.33 (Nov 2016): 273–297.https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiw020 김현덕 The Aspect of Liṅga - Worship in Śaiva Purāṇa, The Journal of Indian Philosophy null, no.4747 (Sep 2016): 155–185.https://doi.org/10.32761/kjip.2016..47.006 Brian K. Smith Exorcising the Transcendent: Strategies for Defining Hinduism and Religion, History of Religions 27, no.11 (Oct 2015): 32–55.https://doi.org/10.1086/463098David Shulman The Enemy Within: Idealism and Dissent in South Indian Hinduism, (Nov 2011): 11–56.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852561.11Arvind Sharma Some misunderstandings of the Hindu approach to religious plurality, Religion 8, no.22 (Sep 1978): 133–154.https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-721X(78)90001-5 David Kinsley "Through the Looking Glass": Divine Madness in the Hindu Religious Tradition, History of Religions 13, no.44 (Oct 2015): 270–305.https://doi.org/10.1086/462707

Religious Movements in Modern Bengal

Religious Movements in Modern Bengal