Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for the penultimate session of our virtual series, "Eat, Drink & Be Merry? The Politics of Food & Drink." Scholars Janam Mukherjee of Toronto Metropolitan University and Niamh Ann Kelly of Technological University Dublin will discuss the role of famine in the politics of food and drink.
Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for the penultimate session of our virtual series, "Eat, Drink & Be Merry? The Politics of Food & Drink." Scholars Janam Mukherjee of Toronto Metropolitan University and Niamh Ann Kelly of Technological University Dublin will discuss the role of famine in the politics of food and drink.
Poulomi Saha. An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal. Gender and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 344 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19208-8.
Reviewed by Samita Sen (Cambridge University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Karolina Hutková.
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850.
Rochester: Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 257 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-394-2. 
Reviewed by Monish Borah (University of California- Irvine) Published on H-Asia (September, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Prakash Kumar. Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 350 pp. $103.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-02325-3.
Reviewed by Darren Speece (Sidwell Friends School) Published on H-Empire (August, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Anthony Cox. Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. xvi + 270 pp. $155.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-50616-8.
Reviewed by Jonathan E. Robins (Michigan Technological University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2013) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
A Tale of Two Cities?: Jute, Empire, and the Imperial Working Class in Dundee and Calcutta
Madhusree Mukerjee. Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 332 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-00201-6.
Reviewed by William Logan (Auburn University) Published on H-War (June, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
Rochona Majumdar. Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 343 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4462-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4478-0.
Reviewed by Judith Walsh Published on H-Asia (July, 2010) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Family and Marriage in Colonial Bengal
Rakesh Batabyal. Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-1947. London: Thousand Oaks, 2005. 428 pp. $97.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7619-3335-9.
Reviewed by Anirudh Deshpande (Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi) Published on H-Asia (July, 2007)
Colonial Cousins: Communalism and Nationalism in Modern India
