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Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns

Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelations

Bashabi Fraser Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay

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English
Routledge
06 October 2023
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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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781032567433
ISBN 10:   1032567430
Pages:   218
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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.

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