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| history of sylhet: History of Sylhet Rabbani Choudhury, 2018-09-16 History of Sylhet is a history about a division in Bangladesh. The contents of the book include such as : naming, location, some kingdoms, tribes, Dravidian and Aryan age, Maithili Brahmans, seven organised gotras, Shah Jalal (R), Sri Chaitanya, Assam Legistrative Assembly, partition of India, Sylhet divison, population, religion, Sylheti language, education, literacy rate, culture, agriculture, tea, newspapers, places of interest, river, haor, hills, communications, literature, Sylheti Nagri and Nagri writers, Chorjyapod, Mohabharot, Mongol Kabyo, Boishnob literature, literature in copper plates, some old and new writers of Sylhet division [900AD-1975AD], thanas, police stations and Sylhet, Habiganj, Sunamganj and Moulavibazar districts. The book concludes with references, bibliography and appendix. The readers can gather important informations from the appendix as well. References of one hundred eleven sources with bibliography consisting of 30, have been placed before the appendix. The writer claims, This is the first book of its kind in English, which has been done by an individual. He means history of Sylhet covering multi-dimensional broad-based information here when he says 'the first book of its kind in English' which is the result of endeavour of 'an individual'.The writer mentions his commitment, I have devoted my time to find the roots of Sylhet and Sylheti's. I would be very pleased if my readers feel at comfort with us. I tried to tell this in a way that some one could see it from scratch, who doesn't even know the area and culture of Sylheti's or Bangali's.Thus 'History of Sylhet' can be marked as a root-searching representation of Sylhet--its origin, history and culture. There are some important pictures including maps of the districts of Sylhet division. The book 'History of Sylhet' has been dedicated to Hazrat Shah Jalal (R), who, with his associates was a great pioneer in preaching Islam in Sylhet and adjacent areas. |
| history of sylhet: Remembering Sylhet Anindita Dasgupta, 2013-01-01 Partition, the break-up of colonial India in 1947, has been the subject of substantial research, but the focus has been almost exclusively on the best-known dividing of Punjab and Bengal. This work presents the little-known story of the district of Sylhet in colonial Assam, partitioned and ceded to East Pakistan following a referendum in July 1947. Unique in Partition historiography, this research presents memories of the 1947 Sylhet Referendum and Partition, using oral narratives of both Sylheti Hindu and Muslims who migrated to Assam/India in the period 1947-50. The study documents the memories of Sylheti Hindus who voted in favour of Sylhets retention within India but had to migrate after the Referendum decided in favour of Pakistan; it also presents the voice of Sylheti Muslims, many of whom had voted in favour of joining Pakistan, but found themselves to be part of India due to their inability to move to the newly-created country. Oral testimonies of these two groups of Sylhetis are used to reconstruct and analyse the Sylhet Referendum and Partition, especially in terms of the impact on the lives of lay citizens, as also remembered six decades later. This book adds a significant geographical area - Sylhet - to the growing corpus of history-writing on the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent. |
| history of sylhet: Social History of Assam Manilal Bose, 1989 |
| history of sylhet: Sylhet , 1999 Papers presented at a seminar organized by Bangladesh Itihas Samiti, from 11-13 Feb. 1998. |
| history of sylhet: A History of Bangladesh Willem van Schendel, 2009-02-12 Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that have created modern Bangladesh. The story begins with the early geological history of the delta which has decisively shaped Bangladesh society. The narrative then moves chronologically through the era of colonial rule, the partition of Bengal, the war with Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh as an independent state. In so doing, it reveals the forces that have made Bangladesh what it is today. This is an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. |
| history of sylhet: Report on the Administration of North East India , 1984 |
| history of sylhet: History of Sylhet Rabbānī Caudhurī, 2010 |
| history of sylhet: Larakoron My Sylheti Grammar Munayem Mayenin, 2011-12-14 Larakoron My Sylheti Grammar is the first ever written Grammar of Sylheti Language. This book completes the Series of Sylheti Language Books written by Munayem Mayenin: Sylara My Sylheti Tutor, shobDolara My Sylheti Dictionary and Larakoron My Sylheti Grammar. |
| history of sylhet: Land System and Management in the Colonial Period Suparna Roy, 2007 Barak Valley is situated in the southern part of the Indian state of Assam. |
| history of sylhet: Early History of Kāmarupa Kanak Lal Barua, 1966 |
| history of sylhet: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America Vivek Bald, 2013-01-07 Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America. |
| history of sylhet: Say Sylara A Traveller's Phrasebook of Sylheti Munayem Mayenin, 2015-06-21 Say Sylara A Traveller's Phrasebook of Sylheti is simply a short guide for travellers who are visiting Sylhet and need just a phrasebook to get by. It offers valuable advice, guidance and tips about Sylheti language, Sylhet, Sylheti people, their culture, customs and life style. People who would like to learn Sylheti can access other books on this Series: Sylara My Sylheti Tutor, Larakoron My Sylheti Grammar and shoDolara My Sylheti Dictionary. |
| history of sylhet: Sylara My Sylheti Tutor Munayem Mayenin, 2011-10-23 Sylara My Sylheti Tutor is Munayem Mayenin's first work in Language. Sylheti is spoken in the North Eastern Province of Bangladesh (The Duchy of Auloka-Green on the Hills) and, by an overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi people settled in the UK, particularly, in England and specifically, in and around London. Sylheti was not written till Munayem Mayenin has developed a script based on decades of his study of the language. Sylara My Sylheti Tutor is the first ever book written in a Sylheti Alphabet that reflects and represents the true nature of Sylheti Language. This book is designed and written with a view of the learners being primarily non native Sylheti Speakers, though, the second generation British Bangladeshis originating from Sylheti parentage can use the book equally effectively. |
| history of sylhet: Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam. Provincial Survey Dept, 1907 |
| history of sylhet: Manipur, Past and Present Naorem Sanajaoba, 1988 |
| history of sylhet: A History of Assam Edward Gait, Sir Edward Albert Gait, 1906 |
| history of sylhet: Burden of History Udayon Misra, 2017-09-25 The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained their relevance but have also gained an extra edge today. In this volume, the author outlines the present contentious issues confronting the state. Explaining the roots of these disputes and how the challenge posed by Assam held serious consequences for the nation as a whole, this work examines the developments that occurred in the years preceding Independence and the Partition. These developments have etched their effect on the society, politics, and economy of Assam, along with the entire northeastern region, in an indelible manner. As the volume reveals, the burden of those momentous years still rests heavily on Assam’s contemporary political scenario. |
| history of sylhet: The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 Richard M. Eaton, 2023-07-28 In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change. In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does su |
| history of sylhet: Skeleton Map of the Dacca Division Anonymous, 2022-05-06 Reprint of the original, first published in 1868. |
| history of sylhet: Minority Nationalisms in South Asia Tanweer Fazal, 2013-10-18 South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority groups intent on preserving what they see as the pristine purity of their own cultural inheritance. This volume examines the perspective of minority identities as they negotiate their terms of co-existence, accommodation and adaptation with several other competing identities within the framework of the ‘nation state’ in South Asia. It examines three different kinds of minority articulations – cultural conclaves with real or fictitious attachments to an imaginary homeland, the identity problems of dispersed minorities with no territorial claims and the aspirations of indigenous communities, tribes or ethnicities. The essays in this volume offer a rich menu: the evolution of Naga nationalism, the construction of the territory-less Sylheti identity, the debates over Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan, the evolution of Muslim nationalism in Sri Lanka, the politics of religious minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the making of minority politics in India, and questions of Islam and nationalism in colonial India. It is an eclectic mix for students of nationalism, politics, modern history and anyone interested in the evolution of South Asia. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. |
| history of sylhet: Abdul Matin Chaudhury (1895-1948) Atful Hye Shibly, 2011 |
| history of sylhet: The Comprehensive History of the Nepalis in North East India K.K. Muktan, 2023-01-01 This book seeks to trace the history of Nepalis in the North East India in its entirety starting from the earliest migration and settlement including their socio-cultural, economic and political development, phase by phase down to the year 2020. It deals squarely with the two primary aspects of civil and military life of the Nepalis, unfolding the spectacular history of valour and sacrifice of the Gorkha soldiers which has no parallel anywhere in the world. It gives a riveting account of the brave Gorkhas and their supreme sacrifice of life in defending Indian borders along Kashmir, Siachen and the MacMahon line above Arunachal Pradesh. The book also throws lights on the glorious role played by the versatile Gorkhas in the Assam Rifles who are, till to this day, diligently maintaining internal peace and order in the hills and valleys of the North East. Dealing with the other segment of the civilian Nepalis this book focuses on their glowing contribution to the freedom struggle of India and presents before the readers a comprehensive landscape of their social, cultural, political and economic life culminating into complete assimilation with the Indian people. |
| history of sylhet: The Calcutta Quran Petition Chandmal Chopra, 1999 Comprises the text of the writ petition by Chandmal Chopra to the High Court at Calcutta and the judgement, and a detailed article by Sita Ram Goel on Islam and Muslims in India. |
| history of sylhet: Minority Nationalisms in South Asia Tanweer Fazal, 2013-10-18 South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority groups intent on preserving what they see as the pristine purity of their own cultural inheritance. This volume examines the perspective of minority identities as they negotiate their terms of co-existence, accommodation and adaptation with several other competing identities within the framework of the ‘nation state’ in South Asia. It examines three different kinds of minority articulations – cultural conclaves with real or fictitious attachments to an imaginary homeland, the identity problems of dispersed minorities with no territorial claims and the aspirations of indigenous communities, tribes or ethnicities. The essays in this volume offer a rich menu: the evolution of Naga nationalism, the construction of the territory-less Sylheti identity, the debates over Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan, the evolution of Muslim nationalism in Sri Lanka, the politics of religious minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the making of minority politics in India, and questions of Islam and nationalism in colonial India. It is an eclectic mix for students of nationalism, politics, modern history and anyone interested in the evolution of South Asia. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. |
| history of sylhet: The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947 Bidyut Chakrabarty, 2004-08-02 The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. Both the British Indian provinces were divided as much through the actions of the Muslim League as by those of Congress and the British colonial power. Attributing partition largely to Hindu communalists is, therefore, historically inaccurate and factually misleading. The Partition of Bengal and Assam provides a review of constitutional and party politics as well as of popular attitudes and perceptions. The primary aim of this book is to unravel the intricate socio-economic and political processes that led up to partition, as Hindus and Muslims competed ferociously for the new power and privileges to be conferred on them with independence. As shown in the book, well before they divorced at a political level, Hindus and Muslims had been cleaved apart by their socio-economic differences. Partition was probably inevitable. |
| history of sylhet: Rethinking Bihar and Bengal Birendra Nath Prasad, 2021-10-13 This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. |
| history of sylhet: The History of Civilisation of the People of Assam to the Twelfth Century A.D. Pratap Chandra Choudhury, 1966 |
| history of sylhet: Aspects of India's International Relations, 1700 to 2000 Jayanta Kumar Ray, 2007 This Volume Is A Modernist Study Of India'S International Relations, Which Traverses Pre-Colonial, Colonial And Postcolonial Perspectives. Its Fourteen Chapters Discuss Varied Subjects Related To South Asia'S Regional And International Relations, Like: (I) The Institutionalization Of British Paramountcy In India And Its Effect On The Region'S External Relations, As Well As Indigenous Responses To Colonial Rule (Ii) The Influence Of Domestic Variables Upon India'S International Relations (Iii) The Interspersing Of Ethnic, Economic And Religious Factors In The Making Of The British Indian Empire, And Later, Of The Indian State (Iv) The Paradigms Of Nature, Culture, State-Making On The One Hand, And Political Ecology And Cultural Politics Of Natural Resources On The Other (V) The Changing Character Of Foreign Corporate Involvement In India (Vi) The Development Of Science And Technology In India And The Activities Of The Armed Forces In India (Vii) The Fostering Of Formal Arrangements Such As Saarc Or Safta In South Asia And Informal Challenges To India'S Security From Non-State Actors (Viii) The Economic, Political And Cultural Consequences Of Globalization For India During The Imperial-Colonial Phases (Ix) The Evolution, In Creative Writing, Of A Discourse On The World Outside India And On India'S Relationship With It. This Volume Will Be Of Interest To Scholars And Students Of South Asian Studies, History, Political Science And International Relations, And Defence Studies. |
| history of sylhet: Documents on North-East India: Assam (1664-1935) Suresh K. Sharma, 2021 |
| history of sylhet: Bangladesh Mikey Leung, Belinda Meggitt, 2012 This updated guidebook, with a focus on responsible tourism, offers greater coverage than any other to the Chittagong Hill Tracts where 13 different ethnic groups live, and to the world's largest mangrove forest at the Sundarbans. Personal insights and anecdotes guide trailblazing travellers to those aspects of the country that are almost unknown to visitors - dolphin and whale watching, winter bird-watching in the northern wetlands and golden Bengal's silk and archaeological highlights. |
| history of sylhet: Cultural Geography, Form and Process Neelam Grover, Kashi N. Singh, 2004 Covers A Wide Range Of Cultural Concerns Such As-Methodological Statements, Impression Of Culture On Landscape, Cultural Processes And Change, Cultural Traits And Distribution And Cultural Ecology, Has 29 Papers Contributed By Eminent Geographers From Indian And Abroad. Researchers In Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Sociology And History Will Find It Useful. |
| history of sylhet: The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and Beyond Chhanda Chatterjee, 2023-03-24 The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India. It looks at various cases of border disputes and affrays such as disputes related to the incorporation of princely states like Kashmir and Jaunpur, the agitation for the creation of new political entities, post-partition reconstruction of Punjab and old pre-partition Punjabi leaders losing their relevance, the Kamtapuri movement, Khasi and Mizo and Chin dissatisfactions, as well as the secession of East Pakistan in 1971. An important contribution to the study of borders, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of modern Indian history, colonial India, Partition studies, borderland studies, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, film studies, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. |
| history of sylhet: India's Indigenous Immigrants Subir, We have grown up in a country where we were taught a distorted history, and some essential segments of our yesteryear have been obscured. Consequently, we were wronged, and we wronged others - unwittingly. Knowing our factual past is, therefore, vital to understanding the aberrations that make our present problematic. This book attempts to sensitise people on some crucial chapters of India, which have either been misrepresented or blurred. The Indian state of Assam has been distressed by several historical deceptions for over a century now, which have remained unaddressed. Thus, despite being one of the most fascinating territories inhabited by incredibly charming people, Assam is often in the national and international news, mostly for the wrong reasons. A case in point is a 1983 American magazine editorial in The New Republic that reportedly wrote, inter alia, “There are places - the Indian state of Assam is one – where the slaughter of children is a form of political expression.” The caustic comment was made in an apparent reference to the 1983 broad daylight Nellie massacre, killing countless newborns, toddlers, babies, infirm females, aged people and others indiscriminately in six hours of mayhem in the village on 18th February 1983. Dissemination of factual awareness about the disinformation spread earlier by British colonial rulers concerning the history of eastern India is, therefore, essential to end the present conflicts between the various communities and tribes of the region. With meticulous research backed by years of personal experience, septuagenarian author Subir wrote this book aiming to permeate ordinary peoples’ much-needed understanding of past realities and the prevalent circumstances that should help usher in peace and prosperity promptly in Assam. |
| history of sylhet: Terrorism in Bengal: Origin, growth and activities of the organisations like Anushilan Samiti, Jugantar Party, Dacca Shri Sangha and other such organisations Amiya K. Samanta, 1995 |
| history of sylhet: The Routledge Companion to Northeast India Jelle J. P. Wouters, Tanka B. Subba, 2022-09-30 The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general. |
| history of sylhet: The Calcutta Gazette , 1910 |
| history of sylhet: Border Crossings Mohammad Chowdhury, 2021-06-10 ‘His marginalisation in dual cultures ascribed to him allows him a brilliant birds-eye view of both, which he employs in his bid to untangle the cultural mindsets he comes across’ Muslim News ‘Offers invaluable insights into how a modern cosmopolitan navigates the complex and delicate contours of faith, identity and belonging in an otherwise globally, interconnected world’ Ekow Nelson, reimagining Whether negotiating the mind-games of the Israeli intelligence services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life as a British Muslim travelling the world brings daily challenges. Border Crossings is the story of Chowdhury’s journey, gripping in some parts and shame-inducing in others, as he describes a lifelong struggle to reconcile the British, Asian and Muslim sides of his identity, constantly dealing with the mistrust of Westerners alongside the hypocrisies of his own community and their misunderstanding of Islam. Chowdhury's story echoes the experience of thousands of Western Muslims who since 9/11 have been subjected to a constant barrage of questions that cast doubt over the very goodness of their faith. It is the story of a man who cries when England win the Ashes, yet still finds himself screaming in the face of racism and religious bigotry. This timely book powerfully rejects the poisonous narrative that Muslims can no longer be trusted as honest citizens of the West. |
| history of sylhet: A statistical account of Assam sir William Wilson Hunter, 1879 |
| history of sylhet: Assam District Gazetteers: The Khasi and Jainta Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lashai Hills Basil Copleston Allen, 1906 |
| history of sylhet: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn, 2012-06-01 Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times. |
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