INDEX
Abhijat, – M. Monier-William’s views on, changing meaning of, , – negative assessments of, Aboriginal groups, Orientalist lineages of, , differentiation from ‘Aryan’ racial and sociological literati, connotations, , exclusion of, valour, , Academic Association, valour, in regional context of Adivasis, , , , –, Bengal, – –, virtual, , Hinduisation of, Asiatic Society, Aitihasik Chitra, and history-writing, agenda of, Atmiyata, and Indian history, – among unrelated individuals, and Rabindranath Tagore, as welding people of the samaj, circulation, , Anderson, Benedict, – Atmiya sajan, and role of print-capitalism, difference between role of print in Bagal, Jogeshchandra, European nationalism and in Bandyopadhyay, Krishnamohan, Bengal, Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, Anglo-vernacular schools, and variations of caste rank in Aryan, Bengal, as culture, , and ‘low’ caste protest as race, movements, as racial categories, Bangiya Sahitya Parishat, Bengali-Aryan connection, , Romeshchandra Datta as its first , , –, chairman, Bengali-Hindu connection, , Bar Bhuiyans, , – , Basanta Ray, , colonial disjunction of, from Kedar Ray, , , non-Aryan groups, , Pratapaditya, , , , , dharma, differences from non-Aryan, Barth, Frederik difference from non-Aryan in and ethnic boundaries, Bengali discourse, Basu, Nagendranath, , , early samaj, , , and fieldwork undertaken to equated with ‘Hindu’, , reconstruct samajik itihas, idea, emphasis on kulagranthas, India, –, , , , – on caste, index
on Dashinrarhiya Kayastha exclusive regional identity, Samaj, ideas about a continuous and on Uttarrarhiya Kayastha Samaj, united Bengal, , , ideas about the cultural and reference to colonial sources, political ‘independence’ of social roots and employment, Bengal during Pathan rule, Basu Rajnarain, adoption of Brahmo faith, lack of unity among distinct and attitude to ‘lower orders’, , groups, origins and physical boundaries, and patriotism, –, , – and samajik uplift, origins of nomenclature, connections with Swadeshikatar political and cultural boundaries Sabha, of, – ideas, – Bengali(s), lecture, on superiority of and their past racial qualities, Hinduism, – on past and present samajs, Aryanisation of, – – as a mixed race/bahujati, , on ‘proper’ conduct and dharma, , –, – as history-less people, preoccupation with history and intelligentsia, identity, interrelations with other Indians supervision of Surabhi, in conceptions of social viewpoints on English education harmony, and incommensurate jobs, language, and mixed elements, Basu, Ramram, – association with the Fort William samaj,aspartofwiderentity, College, Bhadralok, biography of Raja Pratapaditya, and elite, – and literati, , Baumer, Rachel Van M., and ‘lower’ orders, on reinterpretation of dharma, and madhyabitta, and relation to elite/folk, , Bayly, C.A., Bharatbarsha, on precursors of Indian as desh, nationalism, as homeland of the Aryans, patriotism, as utopia including ‘lower’ orders, Bengal, and jatiya uniqueness, – deification as Bharat Lakshmi, and narrative of heroism, origins and physical boundaries, Aryanisation of, , – as a late-Aryanised land, – Bharati, , elite orientation, as non-Aryan land, publishing and printing of, as the desh of the Muslim nawab, Bharati, Sebananda, on Bengal as desh,