Publisher: Editorial Committee, Calcutta Historical Society
Place: Calcutta, India; Year: 1937; Pages: 68
Cover: Softback; Sizes: 22 (W) x 27 (H) cm
Condition: Good Vintage Condition: General age wear. Cover is little worn, has some minor stains & minor tears (torn pieces). Spine was repaired (replaced). A
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Item's Code: XF-240
ABOUT:
This
is a rare, original magazine "Bengal Past and Present" the journal of
the Calcutta Historical Society, published in Calcutta, India. This is
Vol. XXXI (#31), Part I (Serial No. 61)- January-March, 1926
Contents:
- A Forgotten Sea-Fight in the "Bengal River"
- Scraps of Fort William Regimental History
- Shamsuddaulah's Intringues against the English
- Through the Santhal Rising 1855-1856
- More Monumental Incription
- Our Library Table
- Calcutta Historical Society
- Editor's Note Book
The Calcutta Historical Society
was a learned society of Indian history founded in 1907. It published a
journal Bengal, Past & Present, of which Walter K. Firminger was
the first editor
Bengal Past and Present
Bengal
Past and Present the journal of the Calcutta Historical Society was
first published in 1907. The oldest historical society in South Asia,
Calcutta Historical Society was founded by some leading Englishmen of
Calcutta to 'feed their nostalgia about Calcutta' on 27 April 1907 at
the Town Hall with Sir Francis Maclean, the then Chief Justice of
Calcutta High Court, as the President.
Cover design: Bengal Past and Present
In
their attempt to preserve the memories of Calcutta and to collect the
material for a full and lasting history of the city, members of the
society stressed on the need for preserving the ancient institutions,
and historical monuments and buildings in Calcutta. Walter K Firminger
was the first editor of the society's journal. Besides the commercial
and economic history of the city it was expected to carry essays on the
city's old houses, buildings, educational institutions and its
communities.
At its inception Bengal Past and Present was intended to
preserve the British memory of Calcutta as the seat of the British
Empire in India. In its early issues, essays and entries about
Calcutta's buildings and institutions, business and companies, schools,
colleges, hospitals, roads, gardens, sports, clubs, barmaids, actresses,
and memorable events (for instance the great cyclone of 1842) figured
prominently. Indeed the Bengal Past and Present in its early years had
an antiquarian dressing, even though the essays made interesting
reading.
The journal however began to change its character with the
growing professionalism of the discipline of history as full-fledged
history courses began to be taught in the universities. Soon it emerged
as an academic journal of modem Indian and Asian history. The
responsibility of editing was slowly taken over by professional
historians, some of whom, like Professors Narendra Krishna Sinha or
Pratul Chandra Gupta, were University professors with some eminence.
The
changing historiographical concerns of South Asian historians were
adequately reflected in its pages. Usually there has been a greater
concentration on the history of the colonial period. In spite of this
limitation, the journal made a seminal contribution to the development
of the discipline of modem Indian history; and historians, moving out of
the limited confines of political history, gave due emphasis on
economic life, social formation and popular movements. Scholars like
Jogesh Chandra Sinha, Narendra Krishna Sinha, Amalesh Tripathi, Aswin
Dasgupta and Binay Bhusan Choudhury, to name only a few, made their
first appearance in this journal.
Well-known overseas scholars in the
field of Indian history contributed regularly to the journal. In recent
times the journal has been able to mirror the new interest among
historians in the history of Indian nationalism and social structures
alongside a fair representation of the history of crime, crowd
behaviour, labour and women. The Bengal Past and Present has continued
to maintain the rich tradition of historical scholarship in the city of
Kolkata.
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