Mou Banerjee

While Europe experienced an age of evangelical awakening in the eighteenth century, political circumstances in India posed challenges to the work of missionary preaching.

The Blue or Indigo Mutiny of 1861, was an outpouring of anger by Indian peasants coerced into cultivating the unprofitable indigo crop by British planters.

We have to ask an important question about Mujtaba Ali's Kabul adventures - what did this experience mean to this young Bengali man?

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn’s magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India,

On 7 June 1907, a rural Bengali tailor, Meherullah, died of complications from pneumonia in a small village called Chatiantala, on the banks of the river Bhairab, in Jessore.