THE YOUNG GODDESS IN THE ANCIENT PANTHEON OF INDIA by I. T. Prokofieva

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(Post)Colonial State and Constitutionalism in India. Differences and Crossings by Giorgio Grappi

“…The essay deals with the relation between the formation of British India and the development of Indian nationalist movement through the events related to the ‘tiger of Mysore’, Tipu Sultan, and the swadeshi movement as portrayed in Tagore’s The Home and the World. …”
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The Satirical Caricatures of Gaganendranath Tagore by Anavisha Banerjee

“…The rise of nationalist sentiment and Swadeshi movement’s role in the revival of the status of Bengal art was an essential feature of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. …”
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Dalit Resistance during the Bengal Renaissance: Five Anti-Caste Thinkers from Colonial Bengal, India by Mahitosh Mandal

“…It shows how these anti-caste organic intellectuals fought the Brahmanical supremacists during the anti-British movement led by the Brahmins and upper castes, and how their agendas of self-respect and redistribution of wealth conflicted with the Swadeshi movement. Finally, the article demonstrates that while in the history of the anti-caste movement, Phule, Ambedkar, and Periyar justifiably occupy much of the discursive space, a significant and unacknowledged intellectual and political contribution was also made by their contemporary Bengali counterparts. …”
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Poems Politics and the Party: The Making and Unmaking of Radical Aesthetics in Bengali Literature by Kaushik Paul

“…In Bengal, where the cultural politics was already established in the wake of Swadeshi movement, the new ideological-cultural programme was well accepted among its intelligentsia. …”
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