"This volume contains essays Mostly About Bengal written by the author over?a?period?of?fifteen years: 1. The Regional Elites: A Theory of Modern Indian History 2. The Partition of Bengal: A Problem in British Administration, 183-1912 3. A Plea for the Study of the Indian Provincial Legislatures 4. The Vote and the Transfer of Power: A Study of the Bengal General?Election,?1912-1913 5. The Forgotten Majority: The Bengal Muslims and September 1918 6. The Non-Cooperation Decision of 192: A Crisis in Bengal Politics 7. Four Lives: History as Biography 8. Gandhi: A Twentieth-century Anomaly? 9. The Social and Institutional Bases of Politics in Bengal, 196-1947 1. Peasant Mobilization in Twentieth-century Bengal 11. The Rural Parvenu: A Report of Research in Progress These articles were published in different journals outside India which were hard to get in India. The volume is being reprinted as many of the articles are classics and still referred to by South Asian scholars." About the Author John Broomfield was Professor of modern Indian history at the University of Michigan for twenty years and has written extensively on the?impact?of?the?modern?West?on?non-Western?peoples. \n