Mapping Bihar : from medieval to modern times /
Surendra Gopal
- New Delhi ; Manohar, 2018.
- xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Ideas in ancient and medieval Bihar -- Bihar peasants in the early decades of the eighteenth century -- Changing bases of peasant movement in Bihar, 1917-1975 -- Peasant movement in Bihar during the Second World War (some newspaper sources) -- Opium raiyats in Bihar in the first half of nineteenth century -- Revenue rolls registers : an aid for quantitative study of agrarian history of Bihar in the nineteenth century -- Beginning of peasant protest against European indigo planters in Bihar -- Small towns in Bihar in the first half of the nineteenth century (a study in the character of urban growth) -- A new pattern of urban growth : emergence of Zamindari towns in Bihar (a case study of Dumraon in the second half of the nineteenth century) -- Endeavour and persistence : Brahmo Samaj in Bihar in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Swami Dayanand, Bihar and Arya Samaj -- Dalits in Bihar : a historical study -- The roots of conservatism and casteism : a study of social change in Bihar in the second half of the nineteenth century -- An elite group in the second half of the nineteenth century in Bihar -- Industrial capitalism and entrepreneurship in Bihar in the nineteenth century -- Socio-cultural contours of Patna at the turn of the twentieth century -- European accounts of Bihar in the second half of the eighteenth century -- Bihar in the eyes of British travellers and painters, 1780-1850 -- Aniruddha Ray on Europeoan discourses on Bihar -- Science College, Patna, 1927-1947 -- Munshi Binayak Prasad : a 'native' history-writer.