https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7194 2026-04-25T23:58:18Z 2026-04-25T23:58:18Z Ojha, Mr. Lakshman Chandra https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7335 2025-02-14T06:01:09Z 2025-01-29T00:00:00Z

Title: Growth of Fishing as vocation of the local people of coastal region of Midnapore district Authors: Ojha, Mr. Lakshman Chandra Abstract: Fish, which is at present the main source of animal protein in the region can play a major role in helping to bridge of protein deficit. Fishing is a very important occupation in Midnapore district, especially in the coastal region. Growth of fishing as an occupation was one of the important economic activities in the nineteenth century Midnapore. In various reports, there are many references regarding this. Even, some people shifted their vocation from agricultural activity to fishing during the period of our study. The salt authority also encouraged fishing as a vocation among the Malangis. Usually people belonging to Pod, Khadal, Namasudra, Rajbanshi and Muslim communities were engaged in fishing. This paper analyzes the development of fishing rights in colonial Bengal through the nineteenth century. Description: PP:1-21

2025-01-29T00:00:00Z Begum, Arifa Parwez, Mohd https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7334 2025-02-14T06:00:59Z 2025-01-29T00:00:00Z

Title: Diseases and Treatments: A Reflection from Medieval Assam Authors: Begum, Arifa; Parwez, Mohd Abstract: Like the political, environmental, and socio-economic history, the history of medicine has always occupied a special place in Indian history through the ages. Its significance, especially from a sociocultural perspective cannot be ignored. No separate work deals with the diseases that the people had been suffering in Medieval Assam. The contemporary sources of Buranjis (chronicles of Ahoms), Persian and other traveler’s accounts highlighted a number of diseases suffered by the indigenous people and the invading armies. Hence, we get valuable information from their accounts regarding the infections, diseases, and health of the people of Medieval Assam. The present paper, therefore, tries to explore the various types of diseases that occurred in Medieval Assam. The paper also attempts to provide a detailed account of the methods of treatment of various illnesses and its connection with the superstitious belief. Description: PP:22-33

2025-01-29T00:00:00Z Mahato, Nirmal Kumar https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7333 2025-02-14T06:00:48Z 2025-01-29T00:00:00Z

Title: Representation of ‘Tribe’ and ‘Tribal Place’ in Sanskrit Literature, Adivasi Oral Tradition and Colonial Ethnographic Accounts Authors: Mahato, Nirmal Kumar Abstract: This paper seeks to focus on in what way the tribal communities and their place of living were represented in pre-colonial Sanskrit texts which will help us to understand the trajectory of colonial discourse in which colonial ethnographers conceptualize their notion of the tribe. Colonial ethnographers who were deeply influenced by Sanskrit/Brahmanical tradition invented the caste and tribe of precolonial caste order. Indian history informs us about different ways of looking at forests and forest dwellers within ever-changing contexts and perceptions. The changing attitude towards forests has been reflected in different texts written in different languages such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil and other languages as also in oral tradition. Deriving the terms and concepts of tribes from ancient Indian Sanskrit texts the Orientalists and ethnographers of the nineteenth century constructed a dominant body of knowledge on Indian tribes. Not only in colonial India but in pre-colonial or even in the early Indian context, agricultural civilization and forests were regarded as civilized and wild. In the Adivasi oral tradition forest is not unknown and distant here but it is their home so they had a symbiotic relationship with the forest and trees. Description: PP:34-46

2025-01-29T00:00:00Z Ali, Quazi Aktar https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7332 2025-02-12T02:00:52Z 2025-01-29T00:00:00Z

Title: Network of Exchange and Intermediary of South West Bengal in the late Eighteenth Century Authors: Ali, Quazi Aktar Abstract: The arrival of the Europeans and search for essential commercial goods connected the hinterland of South West Bengal with the outerworld. Communication system developed. It was found that the indigenous traders were notable helpful to this communication system. The Bengali trading community took a vital role in the trade of South West Bengal as well as the entire Bengal. They were known as ‘gomostah’, ‘baniyan’, ‘dadni bonik’, ‘paikar’, ‘dalal’ etc. They acted as the agents of foreign traders mainly the Europeans. They were merely middlemen when the foreign traders came to Bengal but their trading flourished when the European traders operated their trading in Bengal. The foreign traders were not familiar with the local languages, customs system, trading centres, measurement of goods etc. Moreover, local communication and local markets were quite unknown to them. In that cases, the foreign traders needed local representatives who would become their helpers and solve all the problems. Historically, it is seen that in the second half of the eighteenth century the foreign company’s merchants and the indigenous traders had a special control over the economy of Bengal. The people of this country accepted the participation of the Europeans in the administration and economy of Bengal. The native traders became the subsidiary of the Europeans in business. The Indigenous merchants also developed their own business. It is said the indigenous merchants created a favourable situation for the trade and business of the Europeans. Description: PP:47-63

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