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Manipur:नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस के परपोते सुगाता बोस ने बताया मणिपुर समस्या का हल, बोले- राजनीतिक खेल बंद हो - Manipur Violence May End With Power Sharing Arrengement By All Three Communities Said Sugata Bose

नेताजी और उनके परपोते सुगाता बोस – फोटो : सोशल मीडिया विस्तार नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस के परपोते सुगाता बोस ने मणिपुर में जारी हिंसा पर चिंता जताई है। उन्होंने मणिपुर समस्या का हल बताते हुए कहा कि सभी तीनों समुदायों-मैतई, कुकी और नगा को एक साथ लाकर उनके बीच न्यायसंगत सत्ता-साझाकरण (Power Sharing Aggrement) करके ही शांति लाई जा सकती है। पूर्व सांसद सुगाता बोस ने बताया कि तीनों समुदायों के सदस्यों…

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#AuthorInterview: Even while acknowledging the ruling party’s unfair tactics, it is a pity that the opposition parties have failed to put forward a coherent and credible alternative.

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A somewhat random selection of books I've particularly enjoyed:

Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie. It's an insider's view of the insidious role of hype, negligence, bias and fraud in the sciences and the way the current system for science funding and publishing enables this.

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. About the Mann Gulch wildfire in 1940s Montana, where a group of smoke-jumpers who parachuted in to fight the fire got cut off; more broadly, about wildfire science and the US Forestry Service. Maclean's collection A River Runs Through It is also fantastic.

The Culture of Defeat by Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Examines the cultural impact of military defeat by comparing the American South after their civil war; France after their defeat in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870; and Germany after their defeat in WWI. This one is definitely a book of academic history but I found it very readable.

A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Sugata Bose. Examines the patterns of pilgrimage, trade, colonialism and sovereignty on the Indian Ocean rim in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, centring the Indian subcontinent.

The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space by Alexis Wick. A bit more of the academic/historiographical, Wick looks not just at the role of the Red Sea in history, but the idea of the 'Red Sea' as an entity.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dustbowl by Timothy Egan.

The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up, by Liao Yiwu. Extracts of oral histories

Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster. I got this book originally for its section about how unexploded ordnance is managed in the former WWI western front, but it looks at other case studies including the unburied dead of Stalingrad, land mines and nuclear fallout.

Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan, by Tamim Ansary.

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land, by Jacob Mikanowski

Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died by Rebecca Macfie. About the 2010 coal mine disaster in NZ.

Ok tumblr friends. I’m trying to spend less time on the internet these days, and I LOVE reading non-fiction books, but trying to find recommendations for new books is a nightmare. Any time I try to look up good new non-fiction books the results are all like “would you like to read an autobiography of Paul Newman or New Reasons We’re All Doomed” and that just. Doesn’t Work for Me. So I’m asking for recs here. I’m open to books about literally any field or topic. Only caveats are that hard sciences have to be on a level I can understand as a humanities person, and medical stuff can’t be too gory (ie I loved Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene and The Song of the Cell, but can’t stomach The Mother of all Maladies). And nothing TOO miserable, but I have a fairly high tolerance for historical stuff. I’m particularly fond of micro-history and books that delve into multiple overlapping topics.

As a sampling, here are some books I’ve read and particularly enjoyed in the last two years:

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Pennock

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Victims of Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Last Days of the Incas by Kim McQuarrie 

The Dream and the Nightmare: The Story of the Syrians who Boarded the Titanic by Leila Salloum Elias

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Yeats by Andrew Knoll

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristine Kobes du Mez

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that made China Modern by JIng Tsu

The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth by Adam Goodheart

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Fire away!

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Narendra Modi gets a lesson from a Harvard history prof: "To truly honour Netaji Bose, include the minorities; speak out against religious hatred; uphold equal citizenship; respect Tipu and Gandhi"

Narendra Modi gets a lesson from a Harvard history prof: “To truly honour Netaji Bose, include the minorities; speak out against religious hatred; uphold equal citizenship; respect Tipu and Gandhi”

Modern politics is mostly a 2.20 minute video wrapped in a 280-character tweet of a hollow “I’m-so-honoured-to-be-here” speech that can be delivered in any one of India’s 640 districts to the same canned applause of bhakts, bots, trolls and pliable journalists.

Sometimes, it is also about putting on the headgear from the region you are visiting in a concession to “local sentiment”.

On the…

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to the anon who sent the ask about the indian revolutionary movement — i accidentally deleted your ask, but here are a few recs:

Do and Die: The Chittagong Uprising, 1930-34 by Manini Chatterjee: about Surya Sen and the Chittagong arms raid; there’s also a movie on the raid (not the very dramatic Deepika Padukone one, i mean the one with Manoj Bajpayee called Chittagong)

Savarkar (2 parts) by Vikram Sampath: easily the most comprehensive biography in english at the moment; also has a lot to say about the networks within the revolutionary movement

Mangal Pandey by Rudrangshu Mukherjee: a biography; gets into the mythology surrounding him

His Majesty’s Opponent by Sugata Bose: about Netaji and INA; very good and has access to great material given also the fact that he’s family

An Account of the Revolutionary Movement in Bengal by Hemchandra Kanungo: which is pretty much what it says; great because we have very little writing on the larger movement and the networks within it

Gentlemanly Terrorists by Durba Ghosh: very, very fascinating; about political violence in the 20th century; focuses on high-caste and elite participation — hence the name; on how terrorism and political violence affected congress politics

A Revolutionary History of Interwar India by Kama MacLean: about the HSRA and its operations between the two world wars; how the “mainstream” congress movement dealt with violent strands

there’s generally not a lot of general work on this outside of academia, especially in english, because we’ve managed to thoroughly ignore this part of the freedom movement in the years after independence outside of a few questions and aspects. i hope this helps and you find something you like!

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My Favorite Books of 2021 So Far

Since we’re a little over halfway through the year, I thought I’d share my favorite books out of the 57 I’ve read so far. Within the categories, they’re not ranked.

5 stars:

Leila Chatti - Deluge (poetry)

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (fiction)

Salman Rushdie - Shame (fiction)

Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings (fiction)

Margaret Atwood - Morning in the Burned House (poetry)

4 stars:

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones (short stories)

Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (fiction)

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things (poetry)

Milorad Pavić - Dictionary of the Khazars (fiction)

Natalie Díaz - Postcolonial Love Poem (poetry)

Wisława Szymborska - Poems New and Collected (poetry)

Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties (short stories)

Eduardo C. Corral - Guillotine: Poems (poetry)

Albert Hourani - A History of the Arab Peoples (history)

Rashid Khalidi - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 (history)

Richard M. Eaton - India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765 (history)

Sumit Sarkar - Modern India, 1885-1947 (history)

Sugata Bose - Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy (history)

Max Blumenthal - Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (politics and current events)

Harsha Walia - Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (politics and current events)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Devil on the Cross (fiction)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (lit theory)

C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (history)

Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (editors) - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (nonfiction)

Yunte Huang (editor) - The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century (poetry and short stories)

Simone Weil - Gravity and Grace (nonfiction)

Simone Weil - Waiting for God (nonfiction)

Umberto Eco- The Name of the Rose (fiction)

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno (poetry)

Clifford R. Backman - The Worlds of Medieval Europe (history)

Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 (fiction)

Fernando Pessoa - A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (poetry)

Margaret Atwood - Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986 (poetry)

Edward Said - The Question of Palestine (history, nonfiction)

Also notable: it feels wrong to rate religious texts, but I really enjoyed the Ramayana, my most recent read.

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SYSTEMATIC LIVING IN DENIAL

Winston lovers only have one thing... "But but Hilter, bro..." "But but tribal rituals bro.."

BUT FACTUALLY...

While those in the West would not want to admit it, for obvious reasons, Winston Churchill was a racist of the highest order. He told the Palestine Royal Commission in 1937, “I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race… has come in and taken its place.”

However, the most racist, infamous of the deeds of Winston Churchill concern his actions which directly culminated into the Bengal Famine in the 1940s. His actions, which involved exporting rice out of India even as Bengal was struggling with famine, directly contributed to the death of an estimated 3 million people.

The United Kingdom also adopted a ‘denial policy’ in India which involved confiscating great quantities of rice and thousands of boats so as to prevent the Japanese from having adequate resources should they invade India in the future. He was warned repeatedly that continuing to export rice out of India could result in food shortages in the country, however, Britain continued exporting rice out of India to elsewhere in the world to sustain its war efforts.

When the Indian Viceroy requested for 1 million tonnes of emergency wheat supply in 1942-43 on account of the famine, Winston Churchill blamed the famine on the fertility rates of the Indians. He said, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”

Shashi Tharoor, who for reasons unknown to us, is the only Congress leader allowed to speak his mind, has critiqued the British hero in the harshest of words. At an event for the launch of his book, Tharoor said of Winston Churchill, “This is the man who the British insist on hailing as some apostle of freedom and democracy. When to my mind he is really one of the more evil rulers of the 20th century only fit to stand in the company of the likes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin”.

“Not only did the British pursue its own policy of not helping the victims of this famine which was created by their policies. Churchill persisted in exporting grain to Europe, not to feed actual ‘Sturdy Tommies’, to use his phrase, but add to the buffer stocks that were being piled up in the event of a future invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia”.

“Ships laden with wheat were coming in from Australia docking in Calcutta and were instructed by Churchill not to disembark their cargo but sail on to Europe,” he added. “And when conscience-stricken British officials wrote to the Prime Minister in London pointing out that his policies were causing needless loss of life all he could do was write peevishly in the margin of the report, ‘Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?'”

As a consequence of the actions of Winston Churchill, millions were starved to death in India during the Bengal famine and the resultant spread of diseases such as malaria and cholera. There was great social disruption which changed the landscape of Bengal completely. Thus, considering all of this and his statements, it is an indisputable fact that Winston Churchill was indeed a racist and claiming that he wasn’t is sheer denial.

A contemporary source cited in Historian Sugata Bose’s paper on the matter described Bengal in those days in the following words: “Bengal is a vast cremation ground, a meeting place for ghosts and evil spirits, a land so overrun by dogs, jackals and vultures that it makes one wonder whether the Bengalis arc really alive or have become ghosts from some distant epoch. And yet in the imaginative words of the poet, golden Bengal was once ‘well-watered, fruitful, abundant with crops.'”

The death toll was so high that the disposal of the corpses became a matter of grave concern. Sanitation plummeted and people had no clothes to wear either. Women committed suicide because they had no clothes to protect their dignity. Some came out of their rooms only when it was their turn to wear a single piece of clothing that was to be shared by all the women in a family.

It was one of the darkest phases of the History of Bengal. And this dark phase was fuelled by the evil policies of Winston Churchill that were a consequence of the hatred he bore towards Indians. Therefore, to claim that he was not racist just because he opposed Adolf Hitler is to remain in denial of the obvious. An opposition towards Nazi Germany is not a sufficient condition to declare someone a hero. Stalin killed million as well and yet, no sensible person denies that he was a genocidal maniac.

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The tumultuous winds propel the crafty granules of rage to shake the enormity of existence. At the far end, a flame piously exuding its enigmatic charm refuses to flicker

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#BookReview: "Asia after Europe" is more than simply a historical narrative; it is a call to action, encouraging readers to reconsider their perception of Asia and embrace its unique tapestry of cultures, traditions, and ambitions.

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WB Forms 10-member Committee For National Education Policy

WB Forms 10-member Committee For National Education Policy

West Bengal government has set up a 10-member high-level committee to examinee New Education Policy (NEP). The committee that will report in two months has members like Sugata Bose, Suranjan Das, Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Anupam Basu, Saikat Maitra, Abhik Majumdar, Dhruvajyoti Chattopadhyay, Chiranjeev Bhattacharya, and Kalyanmoy Ganguly, on boards The committee has…

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netaji letter: Netaji's letter kept in the exhibition is a forgery .. Bose's grandson's letter to Victoria Memorial - sugata bose accuses victoria memorial hall of changing credits at nirbhik subhas

netaji letter: Netaji’s letter kept in the exhibition is a forgery .. Bose’s grandson’s letter to Victoria Memorial – sugata bose accuses victoria memorial hall of changing credits at nirbhik subhas

Highlights: Controversy erupts over Netaji’s letter placed in exhibition. Bose’s grandson writes to Victoria Memorial. Doubts over PM-initiated demonstration. With elections to the West Bengal Assembly coming up in a few days, politics revolves around Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. His grandson Sugatha Bose questioned the authenticity of some of the monuments in the exhibition set up at the…

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Planning Commission like body to be formed in Bengal to honour Netaji: Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: Hitting out at the BJP-led central government for abolishing the Planning Commission conceptualised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her government would come up with a similar body to take ahead the national hero’s ideas and vision. She urged Nobel laureate economists Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee and Bose’s grandnephew Sugata Bose, a historian, to advise the state government on this. “Netaji’s Planning Commission has been dissolved by the central government. They have named it (the new body which replaced the institution) Niti Aayog or Niti Niyog, I do not know. Earlier, I used to go for meetings of the Planning Commission which sought suggestions from each state. Now we cannot share our views,” Banerjee said. The Planning Commission, a government institution which formulated India’s Five-Year Plans besides performing other functions, was set up in March 1950. The Narendra Modi government disbanded it in 2014 and formed Niti Aayog. “So, let’s take some initiative. We will start Bengal Planning Commission to take Netaji’s vision to the world level,” Banerjee said at the state secretariat. “I will request Amartya Sen, Abhijit Banerjee, Sugata Bose to advise us on this,” she said and demanded that Netaji’s birthday on January 23 be declared a national holiday. She was talking to reporters after a meeting of a committee set up by her government to plan year-long celebrations to mark the occasion of the great freedom fighter’s 125th birth anniversary from this January 23. Abhijit Banerjee and other members of the committee attended the virtual meeting. The day will be celebrated as “Desh Nayak Divas” in West Bengal, Banerjee said adding that a “Jai Hind Monument” will soon be erected in Rajarhat area near Kolkata. The slogan ‘Jai Hind’ was popularised by Netaji. The chief minister also proposed to form a National Cadet Corps (NCC) like organisation in state-run schools and colleges and name it ‘Jai Hind Bahini’. “If there is the NCC, why cannot we have a Jai Hind Bahini in every school and college? We should have a short film or a documentary on Netaji which school children can watch. A CD of songs related to Netaji will be brought out,” she said. Banerjee also said that the state government will set up a “national university” which will be named after Netaji. “There are several universities named after Netaji. We will set up a national university without taking help from anybody. The West Bengal government will do it. This university will have links to world class universities like Havard, Cambridge and Oxford,” she said. The chief minister said that a rally from Shyambazar in north Kolkata to Red Road in the central part of the city will be organised on January 23. The CM also stressed on her demand that the Centre declassify the files which might lead to the unravelling of Netajis disappearance. “We have already declassified (some files). We are demanding that the Centre declassify all files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,” she said after the meeting. Besides economist Abhijit Banerjee, eminent personalities such as painter Suvaprasanna, theatre personality Rudra Prasad Sengupta, author Sirsendhu Mukherjee, actor and danseuse Mamata Shankar took part at the meeting and shared their views.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2021/01/04/planning-commission-like-body-to-be-formed-in-bengal-to-honour-netaji-mamata-banerjee/

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Hindutva Threat, TMC’s Mistakes: Mamata’s Former MP Lists Out Things That Went Wrong in Bengal Former Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Bose said that he does believe that the forces of Hindutva pose a major threat , besides party's mistakes which need to be corrected. via Top Politics News- News18.com

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"Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal Since 1770"

~ Sugata Bose

Published by: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Full book in PDF format, 212 pages, 13.94 MB, shared via Mega Drive link.

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The NDTV Dialogues: Defining Citizenship

On The NDTV Dialogues this week, we look at who is a citizen of India. The publication of a draft list of the National Register of Citizens this week left out 40 lakh people. The list is now the subject of a much wider debate – what defines citizenship, who is a citizen of india and whether we should now have a NRC across India? We are joined by BJP leader Lalitha Kumaramangalam, former Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyer who was joint secretary under the Rajiv Gandhi government when the Assam Accord was signed, Trinamool Congress MP Professor Sugata Bose and the state co-ordinator of the NRC Prateek Hajela.

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