Contents

Foreword ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xiii

List of Contributors xvii

Introduction xix

Inaugural Address Partition and Swadeshi: Centenary Reflections 1 Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Parti CENTENARY REFLECTIONS 1. Partitions of Bengal: Issues in 7 State and Civil Society Relationship Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 2. Looking Back at Bengal in the 16 Early Years of the Twentieth Century Sumit Sarkar 3. The Anti-Partition Movement and 26 Bengali Nationalism Hossainur Rahman 4. The Town and the Countryside: 30 Swadeshi in Retrospect Basudeb Chattopadhyay vi Contents

Partn SWADESHI AND CREATIVE IMAGINATION

5. Home and the World: Rabindranath 39 Tagore and the 'Fictioning' of Swadeshi Subir Dhar

6. The Partition of Bengal and Bengal School Art 49 Monosij Majumder

7. Their Indigenous Medium of Popular Contact: 65 The Swadeshi Songs Debashish Raychaudhuri

PartHI TOWARDS SELF-HELP

8. Science and Nationalism in Bengal 83 from 1876-1947 Chittabrata Palit

9. Swadeshi Enterprise in Colonial Bengal: 111 Some Observations Amit Bhattacharyya

PartlV SWADESHI PORTRAITS

10. The Ramakrishna Mission in the Swadeshi Days 127 Jayashree Mukherjee

11. Was Bepin Chandra Pal an Anachronism? 147 Ranjit Sen

12. Mukunda Das: Voice of Freedom from 172 Rural Bengal Eeshita Chattopadhyay Contents vii

13. Daughter of Bengal, Bride of Punjab: 189 Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and the Swadeshi Movement Tapati Sengupta

PartV SWADESHI BEYOND BENGAL

14. Tamil Separatism and the Indian National 225 Movement: A Historiographical Review Lakshmi Subramanian

15. Swadeshi Movement in the Punjab 231 Mridula Mukherjee

16. Dimensions of Assam's Response to Swadeshi 237 J.B. Bhattacharjee

Part VI SWADESHI RE-VISITED

17. Revolutionary Terrorism in the Swadeshi Period 261 Susweta Paul

18. Bangla Theatre and Swadeshi Movement 266 Basabdutta Chanda

19. Sri Aurobindo: The Armed Prophet of Swadeshi 272 Helen Gomes