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Zillah Decisions, Lower Provinces (Bengal)

Zillah Decisions, Lower Provinces (Bengal)

Bengal (India). Zillah Courts

N ittanund Shah, Nehal Shah, Ramsunker Shah, Kaleekinker Shah, and Kasheenath Shah, Appellants. versus K Rajchunder Fotahdar and Ramnarain Fotahdar, mahajuns, and Kewal Kishen Shah, gomashta, Repondents. ' RESPONDENTS ...
Records of the Zoological Survey of India

Records of the Zoological Survey of India

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North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. 13.1.1994, coll. S. C. Majumder. PARATYPES : 1 o, Reg. No. 5478/18. N.C., Z.S.I. (H.Q) Chhotomollakhali, P.S. Gosaba, Dist. South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. 18.1.1994, coll. D. B. Ranamagor.
Nightrunners of Bengal

Nightrunners of Bengal

John Masters

One of the great novels of India, Nightrunners of Bengal combines John Master's mastery of story-telling with an intuitive sense of history.
British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, ...

British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, ...

Dr Kathryn S Freeman

i am indebted to many people and institutions for the generosity and expertise they contributed to this book: to the East India Office at the British Library for allowing me access to the original manuscripts of the asiatic society of Bengal; to the ...
How to Draw India's Sights and Symbols

How to Draw India's Sights and Symbols

Melody S. Mis

Presents step-by-step directions for drawing the flag and national emblem of India, as well as a Bengal tiger, the Taj Mahal, Buddha and other sights and symbols of India. Includes background information on the subject of each drawing.
Asian Survey

Asian Survey

Caliber (Online service)

... a discussion of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's strategies of economic reform in West Bengal, see Partha Pratim Basu. "Brand Buddha in India's West Bengal: The Left Reinvents Itself," Asian Survey (March/April 2007), pp. 288-306. empirical ...
The History of British India: A Chronology

The History of British India: A Chronology

John F. Riddick

1834. The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the East India Company sponsored the publication of a dictionary and a grammar of the Tibetan language prepared by Alexander Csoma de Koros (1784-1842). Over a period of about six years Csoma ...
Astronomy in India, 1784–1876

Astronomy in India, 1784–1876

Joydeep Sen

Bengal: Benares Sanskrit College and Hindu College, Calcutta Calcutta has been known in the historical literature as a science city, at least with respect to higher education. The first chair of engineering and the natural sciences in India was ...
A Concise History of Modern India

A Concise History of Modern India

Barbara D. Metcalf

Important recent regional studies include Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 19 9 3); Cynthia Talbot, Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in ...
My people uprooted: a saga of the Hindus of eastern Bengal

My people uprooted: a saga of the Hindus of eastern Bengal

Tathagata Roy

Gives An Overview Of Bengal Society And Hindu-Muslim Relations In Bengal From The First Partition Of The Province In 1905 - Traces The Events Leading To The Partition Of The Province In 1947 - Describes The Persecution And The Exodus Of The ...
Emergency Powers and the Courts in India and Pakistan

Emergency Powers and the Courts in India and Pakistan

Imtiaz Omar

The fundamental premise of this study is that where Constitutions, such as that of India and Pakistan, articulate legal norms which limit the scope of the executive power to derogate from individual rights during states of emergency, there ...
Propaganda and Information in Eastern India 1939-45: A ...

Propaganda and Information in Eastern India 1939-45: A ...

Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Sanjoy Bhattacharya This is a study of the workings of the British colonial state in South Asia during the Second World War. Its primary regional focus is colonial Eastern India - colonial Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and the eastern United ...
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

John R. McLane

This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967

The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967

Joya Chatterji

This is an intriguing and challenging work whose findings change our understanding and its consequences for the history of the subcontinent.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the discovery of India's ...

The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the discovery of India's ...

Om Prakash Kejariwal

This book traces the history of the Society as an institution and describes the motivations and work of various scholars.
Appellate Courts in the United States

Appellate Courts in the United States

Daniel John Meador

Includes purposes and functions served by appellate courts; the evolution of American appellate courts; the problem posed by, and the appellate courts' responses to, the late 20th-century "crisis of volume" in appeals; one- and two-level ...
Contract Law in India

Contract Law in India

Nilima Bhadbhade

Ramanathan Chetty AIR 1915 PC 121 625 Bank of Bihar Ltd v. Damodar Prasad AIR 1969 SC 297 740 Bansraj Das v. Secretary of State AIR 1939 All 373 819 Bareilly Development Authority v. Ajai Pal Singh AIR 1989 SC 1076 777 Bengal Immunity Co Ltd v. State of Bihar AIR 1955 SC 661 85 Bengal Nagpur Railway Co Ltd v. Ruttanji Ramji AIR 1938 PC 67 761, 766 Bhagwandas Goverdhandas Kedia v. Girdharlal Parshottamdas AIR 1966 SC 543 71 Selected Bibliography Selected ...
Pennsylvania County Court Reports: Containing Cases Decided ...

Pennsylvania County Court Reports: Containing Cases Decided ...

Pennsylvania. Courts

Containing Cases Decided in the Courts of the Several Counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. Courts. [Thompson's Receivership.] 1836, P. L. 784, it is provided that the several courts of common pleas “shall have the ...
Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947

Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947

Joya Chatterji

An original and compelling account of the Hindu partitionist movement in Bengal.
East-west

East-west

Sunil Gangopadhyaya

The Large Canvas Of This Novel Covers Three Continents, But More Particularly The Dramatic Events Following The Partition Of India, The Political Unrest In West Bengal, The Plight Of The Refugees And The Birth Of A New Nation, Bangladesh ...
Midnapore District: Company, Raiyats & Zamindars, 1760-1885

Midnapore District: Company, Raiyats & Zamindars, 1760-1885

Syed Rashed Ali

Study with reference to Midnapore District in West Bengal, India.
Awards Made by the Tribunals

Awards Made by the Tribunals

West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour

For the purpose of deciding the first question of the issue, it is first to be determined what was the nature of the service held by Shri Samarjit Ghosh under the Company. I have already set out above the respective cases of the parties on this ...
Specializing the Courts

Specializing the Courts

Lawrence Baum

He also considers the effects of judicial specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that under certain conditions, specialization can and does have fundamental effects on the policies that courts make.
The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

Pranab Kumar Parua

Some questioned and suspected the role, played by Jyoti Basu and Dr. Asim Dasgupta, his Finance Minister and felt that they had sacrificed the interests of West Bengal and of India at large. What is the truth behind these mixed and diverse ...
The College of Fort William in Bengal

The College of Fort William in Bengal

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Moderator, Mathew Lumsden, Esq. Assist. Professor. By Messrs. Tod, Hays, and Impey, in the Bengalee language. Position.—“The translation of the best works eatant in the Shans“ crit into the popular languages of India, would promote the ...
Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas—an ...
Christians in Secular India

Christians in Secular India

Abraham Vazhayil Thomas

But the credit for bringing the Conference into existence belongs to the Bengal Christian Association.58 This association was founded in 1877 under the leadership of the Reverend K. M. Banerji, K. C. Banerji, and J. G. Shome. It passed ...
Awards Made by the Tribunals

Awards Made by the Tribunals

West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour

The workmen represented by the other Union, i.e., the Indian Journalists' Association, have filed the written statement on 29th November 1960, duly signed and verified by one Shri Samarjit Ghosh described as the Assistant Secretary of the ...

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