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INDEX
 
 

advertising,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Afghanistan, Afghans,
1
,
2
,
3

Afridi,
1

Agra,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

agriculture,
1
,
2
,
3
,

see also
land reform;

peasants

Ahmad, Muzaffar,
1
,
2

Ahmedabad,
1

Akbar, Emperor,
1

Alipore,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11

All-Indian Muslim League,
1

All Indian Trade Union Congress,
1

Amery, L. S.,
1
,
2

Amherst, Lady,
1

Amherst, Lord,
1
,
2

Amherst Street,
1

Amrita
Bazaar
Patrika
,
1

Amritsar,
1
,
2

Andaman Islands,
1
,
2

Andrews, C. F.,
1
,
2

Anglo-Indians,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Anthropological Survey of India,
1
 

architecture,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,

see
a
l
so
mosques;

palaces;

temples

Arcot,
1

Armenian Church,
1
,
2
,
3

Armenian College,
1

Armenian Street,
1

Armenians,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

army, East India Company’s,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
;

Mogul,
1
,
2
,
3
;

Dutch,
1
;

French,
1
,
2
;

British,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;

Indian,
1
,
2
,
3
,

see
also
Indian Mutiny;

Indian National Army;

Second World War

arson,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

art,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Asansol,
1
,
2

Asiatic Society,
1
,
2
,
3

Assam, Assamese,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

atheism,
1

Attlee, Clement,
1
,
2

Auden, W. H.,
1

Auckland, Lord,
1
,
2

Aurangzeb, Emperor,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

ayahs,
1
,
2
,
3

Baker, Sir Robert,
1

Ballasore,
1

Ballygunge,
1
,
2
,
3

Baherjea, Surendranath,
1
,
2
,
3

Banerjee, Hilderam,
1

Banerjee, Kamakhya,
1

 

Banerjee, Subodh,
1
,
2

Bannerji, Bhabanicharan,
1

Bangalore,
1

Bangla Congress,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

banks, banking,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

Bankshall Street,
1

Bankura,
1

Bansberia,
1
,
2

Baptists,
1
,
2

Barasat,
1
,
2

Barauni,
1

bargadar,
1
,

see
also
peasants

Barnagar,
1

Barnagul,
1

Barrackpore,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Barwell, Richard,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Basar Gopinathpur,
1

Basic Development Plan,
see
Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organization

Basu, Jyoti, background of,
1
;

popularity of,
1
;

appearance of,
1
;

character,
1
;

as an orator,
1
,
2
;

and party struggles,
1
;

and struggle with Mukherjee,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

as Minister for Home Affairs,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
;

claims for illegal detention,
1
;

power of,
1
,
2
,
3
;

resignation of,
1
;

attempted assassination of,
1

Bay of Bengal,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Beercool,
1

beggars,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13

Beliaghata,
1

Belvedere Garden,
1
,
2
,
3

Benares,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10

Bengal, European settlements in,
1
,
2
;

insurrections in,
1
;

administration in,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
;

partition of,
1
,
2
,
3
;

terrorism in,
1
;

reunification of,
1
;

race riots in,
1
;

finances of,
1
,

see
also
East Bengal;

East Indian Company;

West Bengal

Bengal Chamber of Commerce,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

Bengal
Chronicle
,
1

Bengal Club,
1
,
2
,
3

Bengal Destitute Persons (Repatriation and Relief) Ordinance,
1
,
2

Bengal Engineers,
1

Bengal
Gazette
,
1
,
2

Bengal
Herald
,
1

Bengal Renaissance,
1

The
Bengalee,
1

Bengali language,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10

Bengalis, occupations of,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,

urban population of,
1
;

rural population,
1
;

characteristics of,
1
;

character of,
1
,
2
;

and the British,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

and education,
1
,
2
;

and the arts,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

patriotism of,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Behoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh,
1

Bentham, Jeremy,
1

Bentinck, Lady,
1

Bentinck, Lord William,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Bentinck Street,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Bepin Behary Ganguly Street,
1

betel,
1
,
2
,
3

bhadralok,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9

Bhagirathi, River,
1

Bhawani,
see
Kali

Bihar, Biharis,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11

Bihor,
1
,
2

Bikaner State,
1

birds,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9

Birla Education Trust,
1

Birla family,
1
,
2

Birla Industrial and Technological Museum,
1

Birla Park,
1
,
2

birth control,
1

Biswas Commission,
1
,
2

Black Hole incident,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

boats, boating,
1
,
2
,
3
,

see
also
shipping

Bolshevik Party,
1
,
2
,
3

Bombay, administration in,
1
,
2
;

commerce in,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

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