Revolutionary Pamphlets, Propaganda and Political Culture in Colonial Bengal

摘要

In this monograph Professor Shukla Sanyal (Presidency University, Kolkata) explores revolutionary propaganda in Bengal between 1908 and 1918. Long years in gestation (p. ⅶ), the book is based on primary sources found in the archives at Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi. The documentation comprises not just the newspapers, pamphlets and leaflets produced by the insurgents themselves, but also police reports, trial records, and memoirs. The author anchors her approach in the grand theoretical insights of Benedict Anderson and Juergen Habermas, along with the ideas of Bengali scholars of the nineteenth century and more recent studies by prominent Indian historians. The main text comprises five thematic chapters framed by an introduction and conclusion, all confined within 195 pages. One section of the monograph appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies in 2008.