1st Edition
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelations
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelationships is a unique collection of essays that comprehensively discusses the nature of interrelationship of India and Scotland spread over the last two centuries.
It covers areas such as nature writing with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Geddes, role of the formative history of Scottish Churches College, Disruption Movement in Scotland and Calcutta, rise of surveillance literature, dichotomy of Homeland and Hostland, Vidyasagar and Scottish transactions, Scottish missionary movement in Kalimpong, Scottish war literature, and interface of Scottish and Indian legal systems.
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1. Foreword
Ian Brown
2. Introduction
Bashabi Fraser and Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay
3. ‘Webs of Significance: Rammohun Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore
Kathryn Simpson
4. “When you see millions of mouthless dead”: Scottish Poetry ofthe Great War (1914-18)
Argha Kumar Banerjee
5. A Cakewalk between Asansol and Dundee: Material Manifestations of A Colonial Thirdspace in a Bengali Industrial Town
Santanu Banerjee, Suvojit Chatterjee Edward Hollis and Hemonta Mondal
6. From Alexander Hamilton to Patrick Geddes: New Nature Writing and India
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
7. The Ambivalence of Tolerance: William Wilson Hunter and the Rise of Surveillance Literature in Colonial Bengal
Pritam Mukherjee
8. Telling the Tale of the Garden Zoological: Exploring Scottish Animal Stories of Andrew Lang through an Ecological Lens
Ritushree Sengupta
9. The Scottish Church College and the Scots Missionaries: Continuities and Influences
Kaberi Chatterjee
10. The Kinetic Mission of Kalimpong: The Enduring Mission of Rev Dr John Anderson Graham and Dr Graham’s Homes in the History of Scottish Foreign Missions
Subhadeep Paul
11. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Scottish Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Nandini Bhattacharya
12. The Transnational Poet: Re-negotiating the Dichotomy ofHomeland and Hostland
Bashabi Fraser
13. “Disruptions”: Rise of Free Church of Scotland and its Impacton Bengali Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay
14. David Hare and Patrick Geddes: The Scottish Legacy in Bengal
Saptarshi Mallick
15. Of Rights to Expression & Information under the Indian andScottish Legal Systems: A Comparative Analysis
Subir Kumar Roy and Jayanta Kumar Saha
Biography
Bashabi Fraser is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing and Director of Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University; Honorary Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow and Honorary Vice President of the Association of Literary Studies (ALS), Scotland and an associate Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Professor Emerita at Bankura University, West Bengal, India. Bashabi is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor and academic.
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is the Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He is also the Secretary of the Indian Association of Scottish Studies. He has published and co-edited many scholarly books, and is the author of innumerable papers. He is also the international contributing editor of the Journal of American History (Indiana, USA). He is the Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.
