Becoming a Minority Community

Sengupta, Anwesha

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“…Famine has reached our family too. Because the price of coarse Aush rice which was 5/6 rupees at the beginning of the year increased to 80 rupees by the end of the year” (Sengupta, 2015a, p. 144).…”

Section: Rice Deficit In Faridpurmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of the remaining 3,36,436 tons, 52,716 tons went to Sinhalese. The rest of the rice was eaten by the industrial people around Calcutta and the army (Sengupta, 2015b, p. 238).…”

Section: Scorched Earth Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The old people were saying, ‘He died because of lack of food. Or parents strangled their children because of hunger” (Sengupta, 2015a, p. 143).…”

Section: District Officials Warnings and Scenario Of Socio-economic D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of British fall in Burma on Bengal famine of 1943: experience of Faridpur district of Bangladesh

Islam

2023

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PurposeAfter the fall of Burma on 10 March 1942 the British government extensively implemented scorched-earth policies in Bengal like denial of rice and boats. The British government had inadequate defense equipment to resist Japanese attack in Bengal. After the Japanese invasion supply of Burmese rice suddenly stopped. Faridpur district used to import rice from Burma. The Burmese conquest created an immediate and serious crisis for several rice imported districts and coastal districts of Bengal. Hence, none of the districts of East Bengal could escape its brutal clutches and severity recorded in Chittagong, Dhaka, Faridpur, Tripura, Noakhali, Bakargonj and so on.Design/methodology/approachAmong the affected districts of Bengal, Faridpur has been chosen as study area due to severity of famine. This study addresses the famine scenario of Faridpur. Data has been collected from primary and secondary sources. Content Analysis Research method is used to test reliability and validity of the data. Historical Analysis Research method has been followed in this study.FindingsFinding of the study shows that the government relief issues, ignorance of warnings, political nepotism and denial policy of British government intensified the famine of Faridpur district. The wartime tactics adopted by the colonial government aggravated the famine situation. This article has shed light on the government war time policy, activity and some impacts of British decline in Burma that fueled the famine in Faridpur district.Originality/valueThis study is my original research work and has not been published else where.

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Section: Rice Deficit In Faridpurmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of the remaining 3,36,436 tons, 52,716 tons went to Sinhalese. The rest of the rice was eaten by the industrial people around Calcutta and the army (Sengupta, 2015b, p. 238).…”

Section: Scorched Earth Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of British fall in Burma on Bengal famine of 1943: experience of Faridpur district of Bangladesh

Islam

2023

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“…In this context, we may also cite the important work of Bibhutibhusan Datta on the Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry (1932). There is no similar overview of the state of our knowledge on Indian Astronomy in the 1930s-some idea can be had from the translation of Khaṇḍakhādyaka of Brahmagupta by Prabodhchandra Sengupta (1934) and his introduction to the 1935 edition of the translation of Sūryasiddhānta by Burgess (Sengupta, 1935, pp. vii-li).…”

Section: Progress Achieved During 1948-2019 In Our Understanding Of Imentioning

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The Untapped Wealth of Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy and Mathematics

Srinivas¹

2019

Indian Journal of History of Science

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Unlike in the case of other classical sciences of India, the vast corpus of manuscripts in Indian astronomy and mathematics has been extensively surveyed and documented during the last fifty years, mainly due to the painstaking efforts of D. Pingree and K. V. Sarma. We shall make use of their documentation to make: (i) an estimate the extent of available source-works in Indian astronomy and mathematics; and (ii) an assessment of what has been accomplished by the modern scholarship of last two centuries by way of editing and translating these source-works. We find that of the estimated 9,000 source-works of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics (which are preserved in around 30,000 manuscripts), only about 150 texts were edited, and just 30 texts translated during 1800-1947. During 1948-2019, there has been significant progress and another about 300 texts have been edited and 66 texts translated, many of them with detailed explanatory notes. Thus, only about 450 (or 5% of the estimated 9000 source-texts available) have been edited and published so far; even among the published works, only 96 texts have been seriously studied via translations and explanations with a view to bring out their technical (mathematical-astronomical) content. There is an urgent need to reorient our national priorities and give due importance to the preservation, digitization, listing and cataloguing, editing & publishing, and promoting systematic studies of the large corpus of source-works of the great tradition of science and technology in India. Training young scholars for undertaking all these tasks should indeed form an integral part of the courses and research conducted in our institutions of higher learning.

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Becoming a Minority Community

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Impact of British fall in Burma on Bengal famine of 1943: experience of Faridpur district of Bangladesh

Impact of British fall in Burma on Bengal famine of 1943: experience of Faridpur district of Bangladesh

The Untapped Wealth of Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy and Mathematics

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