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| AHMED, RAFIUDDIN The Bengal Muslims1871-1906: A Quest for Identity Delhi, Oxford University Press. 1988. Second Edition. xxxi, 271pp, Prefaces to First and Second Editions, 3 appendices, notes and references, glossary, bibliography, index. 8vo/22.5cm. Blue cloth gilt, shelf wear only. NF/NF. A study on the evolution of mass awareness among the Muslims of Bengal. A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation at Oxforrd. Rafiuddin Ahmed (1941- ) was Professor of History at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh at the time of writing. He subsequently was Professor of Asian Studies at Elmira College in New York and an Adjunct Professor at Cornell. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 003213 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| AHMED, SUFIA Muslim Community in Bengal 1884-1912 Dacca, Author Published. 1974. First Edition. ix, 425pp, map, 4 appendices, bibliography, index. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Textured brown Indian cloth, light rubbing at extremities in chipped and soiled dj, occasional marginal checks and underlining, otherwise clean, tight and very good. Author's presentation inscription on ffep "To/ Prof. K. Von Varys,/With Compliments, from/ Sufia Ahmed/ Philadelphia, 24th May, 1976". A revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis at SOAS, Univ of London in 1960 which was entitled "Some Aspects of the History of the Muslim Community in Bengal, 1884-1912". Dr. Sufia Ahmed was Associate Professor of Islamic History and Culture, University of Dacca at the time of writing. She is later listed as a "National Professor". Professor Karl Von Vorys (1930-2006) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Development in Pakistan (1965). He had served as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Dacca in the early 60s. This edition scarce. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 003211 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| AHMED, A.F. SALAHUDDIN Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal 1818-1835 Leiden, E. J. Brill. 1965. First Edition. xi, 204pp, Bengali Society & the Western Impact, Conservatives and Reformers, The Bengal Press-Anglo India, The Bengal Press-Vernacular and Persian, The Government and Public Opinion-Reactions to Social and Education Policies, 4 appendices, bibliography, index. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Green cloth gilt, front board partly sunned, few faint spots back board, otherwise Very Good+. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 001846 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| BERTOCCI, PETER. EDITOR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MOHIUDDIN ALAMGIR AND OTHERS Prelude to Crisis: Bengal and Bengal Studies in 1970 East Lansing, Michigan, Asian Studies Center/Michigan State University. 1972. First Edition. xi, 111pp, Editor's Introduction, In Memorian T.W.Clark by R.V.M. Baumer, 8 papers. 4to/27.5cm. Decorated printed red wrappers, minor scrapes on back panel, otherwise VG+. The papers include: East Pakistan during the Decade of Ayub by Jahan Rounaq; Comment on "East Pakistan during the Decade of Ayub." by E.L. Tepper; Models to Analyze Conflicts arising from Water Resource Development: the Case of Bengal by Peter Rogers; Comment on Peter Robers (sic) paper by Mohiuddin Alamgir; Symbols in Muslim Bengali Family Rituals by Jean Ellickson; The Idea of Community among West Bengal Muslims by Lina Fruzzetti-Ostor; A Cultural Analysis of Bengali Kinship by Ronald Inden and Ralph W. Nicholas; and, Bipincandra Pal and Reform Hinduism by Alexander Lipski. USD 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 13 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1689] Book number: 002328 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| FRANDA, MARCUS Rural Development, Bengali Marxist Style Hanover, NH, Amercan Universities Field Service. 1978. 1978/No.15. 13pp, 15 photo illustrations. 4to/28cm. Printed blue wrappers, light wear. VG+. A study of revolutionary Marxist activities in West Bengal centering around the figure of Pannal Dasgupta and the Tagore Society for Rural Development. Dr. Marcus Branda was previously Director of the American Institute of Indian Studies in Delhi and reports on both Bangladesh and India for the AUFS. The AUFS was founded in 1951 and is a non-profit membership corporation of a dozen American educational institutions which employs a full-time staff of foreign area specialists who write from abroad. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 002508 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| GUPTA, BRIJEN K. Sirajuddaullah and the East India Company, 1756-1757 Leiden, E.J. Brill. 1962. First Edition. xii, 170pp, 2 folding maps, 4 appendices, bibliography. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Blue cloth gilt, light fading of spine, previous owner name head of ffep, otherwise internally fine. VG+. A study of the economic and political background of the conflict between the East India Company and the Nawab of Bengal whose defeat in the Battle of Plassey is sometimes cited as the first major step toward s the British conquest of India. (Mahar 611). Dr. Brijen Kishore Gupta (1929- ), then teaching at Victoria University in Australia, was also the author of the landmark study, India in English Fiction: 1800-1970 (Scarecrow Press, 1973). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 003348 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| JHA, JAGDISH CHANDRA The Kol Insurrection of Chota-Nagpur Calcutta, Thacker Spink & Co. (1933) Private Ltd. 1964. First Edition. x, 242, xxii pp, 2 folding maps, glossary, bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Original textured cloth, light wear and soil. VG+. Concerning the revolt of tribal peoples on the southwest frontier of Bengal in 1831-32. This is an expanded version of the author's Ph.D. thesis at SOAS. At the time of writing, he was professor of history at Patna University. Patterson 20957. Uncommon. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 001285 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| KARIM, ABDUL Early Muslim Rule in Bengal and their non-Muslim Subjects (down to A.D. 1538) Dacca, Asiatic Society of Pakistan/printed by Paramount Press. 1959. Offprint from Volume IV of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan, Dacca, pp 73-96. Tall 8vo/24cm. Stapled, light soil, slightly edgeworn with spine ends chipped, inscribed "To/Mr. Hurley/A Karim/1-9-61"on front. Dr. Karim also wrote, Social History of the Muslims in Bengal published by the Asiatic Society of Pakistan in 1959. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1245] Book number: 003132 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| LYTTON, EARL OF Pundits and Elephants: Being the Experiences of Five Years as Governor of an Indian Province London, Peter Davies. 1942. First Edition. vi, 210pp, frontis and 25 photo illustrations, appendix, index. 8vo/20.5cm. Red cloth gilt, titling a little dull but light wear only in protected slightly edgeworn dj lightly chipped at corners, internally fine. A review of the author's five years as Governor of Bengal, 1922-1927, and brief interlude as the Acting Viceroy. Chapter headings include, Working the New Constitution, Treatment of Terrorist Crime, Viceregal Interlude, Sport, Communal Trouble and Retrospect. Victor Alexander George Robert Blulwer Lytton, 2nd Earl of (1876-1947) was born in India when his father was Viceroy. He substituted for Lord Reading as Viceroy from April to August 1925. A good read. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 15 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1956] Book number: 002789 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| SURVEY OF PAKISTAN Province Map of East Bengal. First Edition. 1:1,000,000 Murree, Survey of Pakistan. 1954. First Edition. 32 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches folded to 6 5/8 x 4/3/8 inches (in official 7 x 4 3/4" folder). Printed card-stock Survey of Pakistan folder, stamp of London Book Co. Rawalpindi, three hand-written numbers, map clean, crisp and Near Fine. This map covers the area known as East Pakistan from the Partition of India in 1947 to its transformation into the new country of Bangladesh, formally the People's Republic of Bangladesh, in 1971. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 004409 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| ABDUR RAB, A. S. M. A.K. Fazlul Haq (Life and Achievements) [Lahore?], The Author. [1966/67]. xiii, 211pp. 8vo/22.5 cm. Red cloth, unworn, in protected lightly soiled dj with one closed edge split, bookplate of Wayne Ayres Wilcox, on front pastedown otherwise internally fine. NF/VG. Abul Karim Fazlul Haq (1873-1962) was one of the leading political figures of Bengal in the twentieth century. Starting out as a lawyer and professor, he became active with the Muslim League about 1910 and was elected to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1913,He later became Education Minister of Bengal, first Muslim Mayor of Calcutta, Chief Minister of Bengal, Interior Minister of Pakistan and finally Governor of East Pakistan. Wayne Ayres Wilcox (1932-1974), who owned the book, was a well regarded young professor of political science at Columbia University, with a special interest in and several books on Bengal and Pakistan, until his career was cut short in 1974 by a tragic accident in which he and his entire family were killed. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 002198 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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