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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
3:16AM - Books and Articles related to Bihar-4(J to Y)
James, J. F. W. "The River Front of Patna at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century." JBORS11 (1925): 85–90.
Jannuzi, F. Tomasson. 1974. Agrarian Crisis in India: The Case of Bihar. Austin: University of Texas Press.
———. 1977. “An Account of the Failure of Agrarian Reforms and the Growth of Agrarian Tensions in Bihar: 1949-1970.” In Land Tenure and Peasants in South Asia. Edited by R.E. Frykenberg. New Delhi: Orient Longman, pp.208-32.
----------. India's persistent dilemma: the political economy of agrarian reform.
Jha , Hetukar. Man in Indian Tradition (Vidyapati's Discourse on Purusa)
IDD779
Hardcover (Edition: 2002)
http://www.exoticindia.com/book/details/IDD779/
-- Colonial Context of Higher Education in India, 1985
- Lower Classes in the Rural Areas of Mithila during Colonial Rule (In Maithili), 1988
-Ganganatha Jha, Makers of Indian Literature Series, Sahitya Akademi, 1992
- Amaranatha Jha, Makers of Indian Literature Series, Sahitya Akademi, 1997
Lehmann, Frederick Louis. "The Eighteenth Century Transition in India: Responses of Some Bihar Intellectuals." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1967.
Ludden, David. An Agrarian History of South Asia
Ludden, David. "Agricultural Expansion, Diversification, and Commodity Production in Early Modern India: Labor Mobility in the Peninsula, 1300–1800." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March, 1988, San Francisco.
———. "Productive Power in Agriculture: A Survey of Work on the Local History of British India." In Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia . Edited by Meghnad Desai, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, and Ashok Rudra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.
Metcalf, Thomas R. Land, Landlords, and the British Raj: Northern India in the Nineteenth Century . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979.
Mishra, Girish. Agrarian Problems of Permanent Settlement: A Case Study of Champaran . New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1978.
Ojha, P. N., ed. History of the Indian National Congress in Bihar, 1885-1985. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, 1985.
Pinch,William R. Peasants and Monks in British India
Pouchepadass, Jacques. Champaran and Gandhi: Planters, Peasants and Gandhian Politics.
Translated from the French by James Walker. 1999, xxii, 277 p., ISBN 019564084-5.
Jacques Pouchepadass is Director of Research (History) at the National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris.
"This book studies the indigo plantation economy and its impact on agrarian society in colonial Bihar. It shows how the indigo business, though in part a capitalist speculation tied to the world market, relief methodically on inexpensive, age-old techniques and on the social and institutional constraints of the rural power structure to produce dye at the lowest possible cost.
"The history of indigo is traced from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its decline in the early twentieth century. This sets the stage for understanding the chronic peasant agitations which emerged during the 1860s, culminating in the Champaran movement of 1917-18, the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilization.
"This book will interest all students of social and economic history as well as Gandhian politics." (Jacket)
Pradhan, Harishankar Prasad. (1979). "Semi-feudalism: The Basic Constraints of Indian Agriculture," in Arvind N. Das and V. Nilkanth, eds. Agrarian Relations in India. New Delhi.
Obituiry: Pradhan,Harishankar Prasad
Prasad, Rajiv Nain. History of Bhojpur(1320-1860). Patna: K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1987
Prasad, Bhagwath. Mela Ghumani . Muzaffarpur: Vijay Press, 1925.
सहाय,शिवपूजन. विहार का विहार. बाँकीपुर,ग्रन्थमाला कार्यालय. १९१९
Sarkar, Jadunath. "Travels in Bihar, 1608 A.D." JBORS5 (1919): 597–603.
Sarkar, Jagadish Narayan. "Patna and Its Environs in the Seventeenth Century—a Study in Economic History." JBRS 33(1947): 126–53.
Singh, Narayan Prasad. The East India Company's Monopoly Industries in Bihar(with Particular Reference to Saltpetre and Opium[1773–1833]) . Muzaffarpur: Sarvodaya Vangmaya, 1980.
Singh, Ramdahin, comp. Bihar Darpan . Patna: Khadagvilas Press, 1883.
Sinha, Bindeshwari Prasad, ed. ComprehensiveHistoryofBihar . Vol. 1, part 1. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, 1974
Wilson, Minden. History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Behar; Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past; History of Bihar Light Horse Volunteers. Calcutta: Calcutta General Printing, 1908.
Yang, Anand A. A Conversation of Rumors: The Language of Popular Mentalités in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial India. Journal of Social History 20 (1987): 485–505.
———Disciplining 'Natives': Prisons and Prisoners in Nineteenth Century Colonial India. South Asia 10 (1987): 29–45.
———The Limited Raj:Agrarian Relations in Colonial India , Saran District , 1793–1920 . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989.
———Peasants on the Move: A Study of Internal Migration in Colonial India. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 10 (1979): 37–58.
———Sacred Symbol and Sacred Space in Rural India: Community Mobilization in the 'Anti-Cow Killing' Riot of 1893. CSSH 22 (1980): 576–96.
———Visualizing Patna: History and the Patna School of Painting. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, Mar. 25–28, 1993.
______ Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Yugandhar, B.N & Iyer K Gopal (Ed.). Land Reform in India- Institutional Constraints, Sage Publication, 1993,
ISBN 0803991193
The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay
3:06AM - Books and Articles related to Bihar-3 (H)
Hagen, James R. "Indigenous Society, the Political Economy, and Colonial Education in Patna District: A History of Social Change from 1811 to 1951 in Gangetic North India." Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1981.
-- The Raw and the Simmered:
Environmental Contexts of Food and Agrarian Relations in the
Gangetic Plain.
Hand, J. Reginald. Early English Administration of Bihar , 1781–1785 . Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894.
Haan , Arjan de. ) Migration and livelihoods in historical perspective: a case study of Bihar, India.
Source: Journal of Development Studies, June 2002, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 115-142(28)
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract:
Whereas other contributions in this volume focus on contemporary migration, this article explores the role migration has played over a long period of time, in western Bihar, India. By doing so, it reinforces one of the central themes in this volume, regarding the importance of migration for livelihoods: this case study challenges the assumption that migration would be a recent phenomenon, and argues that to understand the history of this area one needs to take account of the complex interaction between migration and development. Migration has been a livelihood strategy for many groups within the area, and the study explores how migration has been caused by and in turn influences poverty and livelihoods for men and women, and how these relationships have changed over time.
Hauser, Walter. From Peasant Soldiering to Peasant Activism: Reflections on the Transition of a Martial Tradition in the Flaming Fields of Bihar
Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2004, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 401-434(34)
Abstract:
In his ethnohistory of the military labour market in eastern Hindustan, 1450-1850, Dirk Kolff is concerned as much with the qualities of the supply side of the market, that is the villages of the rural countryside, as by the demand side of what the state might need or when it might need it. He describes the towns and villages of the region as an armed society in the Mughal and early modern centuries, and implies that this martial ethos extends into the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. My suggestion is that the social, cultural, and political history of the twentieth century affirms this to be the case, generally in Gangetic north India, and speci fically so in Bhojpur and Bihar, the heart of Kolff's Hindustan.
______Changing images of caste and politics
Seminar #450, Fberuary 1997, "The State of Bihar," p. 47-52
WALTER HAUSER: Historian of Modern India
Henningham, Stephen. A Great Estate and Its Landlords in Colonial India: Darbhanga, 1860-1942
Oxford Univ Pr (November 1, 1990)
ISBN: 0195625595
Henningham, Stephen. Peasant Movements in Colonial India, North Bihar, 1918-1942. ANU South Asia Monograph, series #9, 1982
STEPHEN HENNINGHAM has taught history for some years at the University of South Wales and the University of Melbourne
Houlton, Sir John. 'Bihar: The Heart of India'
Orient Longmans Ltd., Bombay. 1949
Huddleston, G. History of the East Indian Railway. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, and Co., 1906
2:53AM - Books and Articles related to Bihar-2(D to G)
Datta, K. K. Biography of Kunwar Singh and Amar Singh .
Patna: K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1957.
Derbyshire, I. D. "Economic Change and the Railways in North India, 1860–1914." MAS 21 (1987): 521–45.
Dutt, Devendra Nath. A Brief History of the Hutwa Raj. Calcutta: K. P. Mookerjee, 1909.
Dutt, G. "Further Notes on the Bhojpuri Dialects Spoken in Saran." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 73 (1907): 245–49.
Ghose, A. C. "Rural Behar." Calcutta Review 220 (1900): 218-32
Gopal, Surendra. Patna in 19th Century. Calcutta: Naya Prokash, 1982.
Goswami, B. N. "The Records Kept by Priests at Centres of Pilgrimage as a Source of Social and Economic History." IESHR3 (1966): 174–84.
G. P. S. "Patna, during the Last Days of the Mahomedans." Calcutta Review 147 (1882): 114–37.
Grierson,George A. Bihar Peasant Life
Reprint, Delhi,Cosmo Publications,1975
"Grierson, George Abraham (1851-1941) Anglo-Irish linguist and folklorist, noted for his research in Indian languages, was born on 7 January 1851 at Glanageary in Ireland. His father was a distinguished royal typographer. Grierson went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied sanskrit and Hindi.
Grierson qualified for the Indian Civil Service examination in 1871. In 1874 he joined the Bengal Presidency, which, at that time, comprised of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. From 1874 to 1898, Grierson held various posts in rangpur, Howrah, Gaya and Patna...."
http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/G_0207.htm
Gupta, Shaibal . EMERGENCE OF NEW SOCIAL ELITES IN BIHAR : CRISIS OR CHANGE
______________NATURE OF ELITE FORMATION IN THE HINDI HEARTLAND : A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF BIHAR AND MADHYA PRADESH
___________Bihar as eternal subsidiser of national elite
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2:43AM - Some Books and Articles Related to Bihar-1
Bagchi, A.K. 1976, `Deindustrialisation in Gangetic Bihar, 1809- 1901' in Essays in Honour of Prof. S.C. Sarkar, New Delhi. Ed. Barun De
People's publishing House, 1976
Beveridge, H. "The City of Patna." Calcutta Review 76, no. 152 (1883): 211-33
Buchanan, Francis. An Account of the District of Purnea in 1809-10 . Patna: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, 1928.
———. An Account of the District of Shahabad in 1812-13 . 2 vols. Patna: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, 1934.
———. An Account of the Districts of Bihar and Patna in1811-1812 . Patna: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, 1928.
———. Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept during the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811 . Edited by C. E. A. W. Oldham. Patna: Government Printing, 1930.
Chaudhary,Radhakrishna. Mithila:The age of Vidyapati
Chaukhambha, Varanashi
Chatterjee, Kumkum. "Intimations of Crisis: The Elite of Azimabad-Patna, 1757–1820." Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mar. 24–27, 1994.
Das, Arvind N. The Republic of Bihar, DS 485 .B5175 D35 1992
_____ Changel : the biography of a village,DS486.C39 D35 1996
_____ The state of Bihar: an economic history without footnotes
HC 437 .B47 D37 1992
_____ Agrarian unrest and socio-economic change in Bihar,
HD1339.I4 D37 1983
Comprehensive Bibliography of Arvind Nr Das Articles, books and Internet
Sunday, June 19, 2005
3:27AM - A Hindu wrote Pakistan's first national anthem
| How Jinnah gotUrdu-knowingJagannath Azadto write the song. |
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
JAMMU: "Aey sarzameen-i-pak Zarrey terey hein aaj sitaron sey tabnak Roshan heh kehkashan sey kahin aaj teri khak."("Oh land of Pakistan, each particle of yours is being illuminated by stars. Even your dust has been brightened like a rainbow."')
These are lines from Pakistan's first national anthem — written by Jagannath Azad, a Lahore-based Hindu, acceding to the wishes of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the country's founder and first Governor-General.
As the debate about Jinnah's secular August 1947 vision of his country rages on, this little known fact will be of public interest. Days before his death last year, Azad recalled, in an interview to this correspondent, the circumstances under which he was asked by Jinnah to write Pakistan's national anthem: "In August 1947, when mayhem had struck the whole Indian subcontinent, I was in Lahore working in a literary newspaper. All my relatives had left for India and for me to think of leaving Lahore was painful. I decided to take a chance and stay on for some time. My Muslim friends requested me to stay on and took responsibility of my safety. On the morning of August 9, 1947, there was a message from Pakistan's first Governor-General, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was through a friend working in Radio Lahore who called me to his office. He told me `Quaid-e-Azam wants you to write a national anthem for Pakistan.' I told them it would be difficult to pen it in five days and my friend pleaded that as the request has come from the tallest leader of Pakistan, I should consider his request. On much persistence, I agreed."
Why him? "The answer to this question," Azad said in the interview, "has to be understood by recalling the inaugural speech of Jinnah Sahib as Governor General of Pakistan. He said: `You will find that in the course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state.' It is for historians and analysts to judge what made Jinnah Sahib make this speech
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Monday, May 16, 2005
12:20AM - You can take the boy out of Bihar but you cannot take Bihar out of the boy
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Leading a new pack of Biharis in the IAS
ABHAY MOHAN JHA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2005 11:28:54 PM ]
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PATNA: "You can take the boy out of Bihar but you cannot take Bihar out of the boy," writer Amitava Kumar wrote back recently from Pennsylvania to The Times of India researching a story on Bihari achievers, many of them holding places of pride in the bureaucracy.
"In 10 years, either the DM or the SP, if not both, in each of the 500-odd districts in the country will be a Bihari," is how Shaibal Gupta, member-secretary of the Patna-based Asian Development Research Institute responded to a query.
Manish Kumar (29), standing 5th to be the highest-ranking Bihari in this year’s civil services examination merit list, is the hot new reflection mirroring the views of the writer and the social scientist.
A plum job in the Big apple was his for the asking but he preferred the arduous and uncertain route to a life in babudom. Hailing from Parmanpur village near Jamdaha in Banka district, Manish, with Kendriya Vidyalaya moorings (10 years in Giridih and Plus 2 at Singrauli) and a graduation degree in humanities from Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, did his masters in management from IIM, Lucknow, and followed it with another MA in economics from Pune University while working with Cummins.
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After a short stint with Eklavya Foundation, he was a manager with ICICI for three years, only to become a research fellow at the Bombay School of Economics. His PhD work: "A study of retrenchment in the corporate sector in Maharashtra". Was it the Pink slip syndrome which deterred him from taking up the cushy job offer in New York?
"90 per cent of my friends have gone abroad, most will not return," he told ToI from Mumbai on Saturday, adding, "Civil service is more varied and challenging."
"Manish juggled between management and public administration as one of his optional papers alternately to make it this year in his third attempt with economics and management," his guide at Sriram Institute in New Delhi said, adding, "He came across as one proud of his Bihari identity."
"My interviewers focused their questions on Bihar, asking me how I could contribute towards the change," Manish recalled, reiterating his conviction, "Development is the only agenda. Bihar has an innate capacity to rebound from crises."
Son of S K Thakur, a Coal India engineer, Manish’s maternal roots lie in Madhubani. Not surprisingly, he is equally at home with Angika and Maithili, just as he is comfortable with Hindi and English. "I have given a preference for home cadre," Bihar’s newest IAS topper said. When was the last time you heard all Biharis are running away from the state?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1110583,curpg-2.cms
12:15AM - सामाजिक न्याय की सरकार और भूमि सुधार
लालू राज में जमीन को लेकर हुई एक से बढ़कर
एक घोषणाएं,मगर जमीन के सवाल पर हुआ कुछ
भी नहीं.
बिहार में जमीन का मसला हल नहीं होने के परिणामस्वरूप
तनाव तो है ही, बड़ी संख्या में जमीन परती भी रह जाती है.
बटाईदारों को कानूनी हक दिलाने की घोषणाएं तो खुब हुईं ,
लेकिन कोई ठोस कदम नहीं उठाया गया.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/2031_1362913,0065000300000001.htm
Sunday, May 15, 2005
12:02PM
Bihar wetlands: An agricultural gold mine
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2005 11:25:05 PM ]
PATNA: Invariably cursed by one and all, the vast stretch of flood plain wetlands in Bihar can be turned into an agricultural gold mine, if it is managed effectively and put to appropriate use. The agricultural productivity of the state, which has declined considerably in the last few decades, is likely to increase manifold with the effective utilisation of wetlands.
Expressing these views at the two-day national seminar on "The environmental status and appropriate use of flood plain wetlands in Bihar", organised by the biotechnology department of B N College here on Saturday, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) director-general Mangala Rai observed that farmers in the wetlands can no longer remain dependent on crop husbandry alone. Agro-forestry, dry land horticulture, commercial fishery, capture fishery, dairy, poultry and other animal husbandry-based enterprises hold promises if adopted in an integrated watershed approach with people’s participation in a systematic way.
Rai pointed out that Bihar is fortunate in having plenty of water resources, even though many parts of the country are facing acute shortage of water. Having got only 4.3 per cent of the earth’s water resources, India has to support 16 per cent of the world’s population. What is really needed in Bihar is the adoption of latest scientific and technological practices for better management of wetlands. Substantial increase in crop production (up to 5 to 8 times) is possible using a mix of technology option and optimum rainwater management practices on farming system approach, he added.
Inaugurating the seminar, Patna University vice chancellor Jagannath Thakur pleaded for more intensive researches in the field of agricultural practices to be adopted in wetlands. Large-scale production of makhana, singhara and fishes by ensuring proper management of its water bodies will not only improve its economy but also check the ever-increasing migration of its people to other states. PU pro-vice chancellor S Ehteshamuddin presided. At the outset, principal M P Sinha welcomed the guests.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1110576.cms
Monday, May 9, 2005
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