After the proud publications of our issues on Ognijug (Vol. 1, No.1), Bengali Cinema (Vol.1, No.2), Bengali Theatre (Vol.2, No.1), Science and Technology in History: Modern Bengali Perspectives (Vol.2, No.2), Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (Vol.3, No.1) Journal of Bengali Studies is happy to announce the online publication of its Autumn Issue, 2014 (Vol.3, No.2), on the theme of Kolkata on the occasion of Jogoddhatri Pujo, 1 November 2014. You can read the issue by clicking on the cover image
Journal of Bengali Studies … by bengalistudies
ISSN: 2277-9426
Journal of Bengali Studies
Vol. 3, No. 2
1 November 2014
Jogoddhatri Pujo, 14 Kartik 1421
Autumn Issue
Kolkata
Editor: Tamal Dasgupta
Contents
Editorial
Article
CoordiNation and Deferral of Bengali Nation-Consciousness: Ishwarchandra Gupta in Nineteenth Century Kolkata
Tamal Dasgupta 16
Kolkata Corporation and Subhas Chandra Bose: Death of a Dream
Chandrachur Ghose 84
Echoes from the Past: Revisiting ‘Old Kolkata’ in GorosthaneSabdhan
Kallol Gangopadhyay 126
A Lesson in Living Life: The Portrayal of Kolkata in Satyajit Ray’s Short Stories
Zenith Roy 147
Demographic and Behavioral Profile of Street Children in Kolkata
Atanu Ghosh 164
Cottage and Small Scale Industries in the Slums of Kolkata: Growth and Constraints in Twentieth Century
Subrata Nandi 176
Kolkata’s Intellectual Response to Shakespeare: Academia, Stage and Little Magazines
Arindam Mukherjee 191
Tracing the Historical Roots of Kolkata’s North-South Divide
Madhusree Chattopadhyay 229
Review
Scanning Kolkata Stage through the Eyes of Five Doyens: A Review of Bratya Basu’s Book of Interviews
Sourav Gupta 247
Workshop
Love and Kolkata: Six Poems
Tamal Dasgupta 251
Commentary
Sister Nivedita in Kolkata: A Nation Awakens
Mousumi Bandyopadhyay 267
Living Heritage: Boats of Kolkata
Swarup Bhattacharyya 278
Traditional Sanskrit Learning in Kolkata
Somnath Sarkar 298
