A Selected Filmography on Calcutta

Ray, Barun Kumar

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“…6. By contrast, Jitendra Narayan Ray's prose account of Rangoon in the 1930s was presumably intended for silent reading (Ray 1938).…”

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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

2023

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Sounding the Indian Ocean is the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches, the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religious networks, media, and performance. Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be “heard” outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integrating methods from music and sound studies into the history and anthropology of the region. Challenging the area studies paradigm—which has long cast Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as separate musical cultures—the book shows how music both forms and crosses boundaries in the Indian Ocean world.

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“…6. By contrast, Jitendra Narayan Ray's prose account of Rangoon in the 1930s was presumably intended for silent reading (Ray 1938).…”

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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

2023

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“…The beginnings of human settlement in what eventually came to be known as Calcutta can be roughly dated to the sixteenth century, 107 when the village of Kalikata gradually became a seat of residence, while Sutanuti became a fledgling centre of industry, especially of cotton textiles. 108 Gobindapur village, where Nabakrishna was born, was granted to one Gobindasarana Datta by the Mughals sometime in the late sixteenth century, and it later became the third village, along with Sutanuti and Kalikata, which formed the town of Calcutta.…”

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“…109 Kalikata became a mahal (spatial unit for revenue administration) for the first time in the 1580s under the Mughals. 110 Before the arrival of the British in 1690, however, none of the traditional upper castes except for a few kayastha zamindars resided in these villages. 111 Once the port of Saptagram in western Bengal lost its importance due to silting, middling groups such as the weaver-cum-merchant castes of Basaks and Seths did move to Gobindapur to set up a new trading base.…”

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“…112 They set up bazars and orchards, and financed the digging of canals to create inland trading routes. 113 But the majority of the population in these villages was made up of lower-caste groups such as Pods, Jalias and Bagdis, who had traditionally been fishermen, hunters and the like. 114 There is also likely to have been some Chandalas and Doms, since we know that even in the nineteenth century, these castes-along with middling castes such as Kaivartas and a sizeable number of poor Muslims-had a major presence in the 24 parganas beyond the southern and northern limits of Calcutta, and they often came into the city to sell forest products, baskets and other items as petty merchants.…”

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The politics of commerce in eighteenth-century Bengal: A reappraisal

Karak

2024

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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This article broaches a simple question: Was there a politics of commerce within Bengali society in the eighteenth century, or was such politics limited to disputes between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Bengal nawabs? I begin by discussing the literature on markets in eighteenth-century Bengal and argue that the relationship between commerce and politics has been too narrowly defined in this body of work. A one-sided focus on determining the impact of the early colonial state, coupled with an uncritical acceptance of Peter Marshall’s Namierite story about the origins of the British empire, has led historians to downplay ideological conflicts within the EIC and British society. To show why these divisions matter, I build on the recent work of James Vaughn and Spencer Leonard, who have shown that between 1750 and 1770, political and ideological conflicts in both Britain and Bengal had far-reaching effects on the character of the British empire. Through an extended discussion of a dispute over market access in 1778 in the city of Calcutta, I show that petty merchants and shopkeepers often opposed arbitrary impositions by regional elites. To fully understand the motivations behind such challenges, I argue that we need to seriously consider divisions within Bengali society as well: namely, the reproduction of caste hierarchies through differential access to markets (and land).

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“…Instead, it appears that he was someone akin to an entrepreneur or magnate of sorts, who could generate income for himself by intervening in agrarian production, while also sustaining rural society and its economy by operating as a fiscal buffer. 55 The Marathas, despite carrying out administrative innovations in the Mughalbandi, seem to have retained the intermediarys productive role and functions in substance.…”

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Rigidity and the Affliction of Capitalist Property: Colonial Land Revenue and the Recasting of Nature

D’Souza

2004

Studies in History

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This article will argue that colonial rule had to simultaneously alter both agrarian society and Nature in order to implant the Company zamindari system in deltaic Orissa. This led the colonial government to recast the previously flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape. Which in turn, I argue, led to the rupture of land, in hitherto unprecedented ways, from its previous ecological weave with the deltaÌs hydrology. In effect, colonial rule could enforce its distinctness as a social and economic relation only by correspondingly instituting a new ecological context. Central to the colonial revenue strategy was the attempt to institute capitalist private property, which compelled them to treat land as an economic form, a rent-seeking alienable commodity and as a monopolized means of production. This sharp departure from the previous revenue practices in the region furthermore caused them to adopt formal and rigid administrative routines for enforcing a standardized rental instalment. Thus, the CompanyÌs taxing inflexibility was not spurred only by its rapacious Îrevenue hungerÌ but significantly because it was integral to realizing its particular mode of colonial appropriation.

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A Selected Filmography on Calcutta

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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

The politics of commerce in eighteenth-century Bengal: A reappraisal

Rigidity and the Affliction of Capitalist Property: Colonial Land Revenue and the Recasting of Nature

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