A critical history initiative
During the year 2021, I hope to write, monthly or bi-monthly, an article on the following topics:
Completed
Background
Habshi rule of Bengal (1487-94)
History of Bengal Textiles
In process
The Portuguese arrival and Sultan Mahmud’s war against Sher Khan (1517-38)
The Moghul takeover of Bengal (1576)
Banda Island Massacre (1621) and Bengali Slavery by the Dutch (1623-1665)
The rise of Murshid Quli Khan (1700-27) and Aliverdi Khan (1740-56)
The Battle of Plassey (1757) and the Bengali language development project (1780)
The rise and fall of Titu Mir in context (1827-31)
The Indian Mutiny (1857) and the beginning of the British Raj (1858)
The partition of Bengal (1905), the Swadesi Movement and its annulment (1911)
Bihari refugee experiences in East Pakistan (1947-71)
The divergent trajectories of Hindu/Muslim developments during the British rule