Modern History

Notebook: Modern History Spectrum

Created: 5/3/2020 7:18 PM Updated: 5/3/2020 8:39 PM
Author: Satyendra

Chapter 1 : Sources and Approaches

James Rennell as the first Surveyor General of Bengal in
1767

Important fort
Fort Williams: Bengal Presidency
Fort St. George: Madras
FORT St. ANGELO-MALABAR(?)
Chinsura(West Bengal) : Dutch
Chandernagore and Pondicherry : French

Biographies,memoirs and travel accounts

Abbe Dubois-Hindu Manners and Customs(information
about socio-economic life of Indian at the time of rise of
British Empire)
British travellers
James Burnes -Narrative of a Visit to the Court of
Sinde
Alexander Burnes -Travels Into Bokhara
C.J.C. Davidson-Diary of the Travels and Adventures in
Upper India
John Butler -Travels and Adventures in the Province
of Assam

Newspapers and Journals

first attempts to publish newspapers in India
were made by the disgruntled employees of the
English East India Company who sought to expose the
malpractices of private trade
1780, James Augustus Hickey published the first
newspaper in India entitled The Bengal Gazette or
Calcutta General Advertiser . Hickey’s press was
 seized within two years, owing to his outspoken
criticism of government officials.
one-third of the founding fathers of the Indian
National Congress in 1885 were journalists
Newspaper and editors
Hindu and Swadesamitran : G. Subramaniya Iyer
Kesari and Mahratta : Gangadhar Tilak
Bengalee : Surendranath Banerjea
Amrita Bazaar Patrika : under Sisir Kumar Ghosh
and Motilal Ghosh
Sudharak : Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Indian Mirror : N.N. Sen
Voice of India : Dadabhai Naoroji,
Hindustan and Advocate : G.P. Varma.
newspaper outside India
Indian Sociologist( London) Shyamji
Krishnavarma
Bande Matram( Pari) : Madam Cama
Talwar (Berlin): Virendranath Chattopadhyay
Ghadar (San Francisco): Lala Hardayal
Literature
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Anandamath (1882),
noted for its powerful lyric ‘Vandemataram’
and depiction of the Sanyasi Revolt (1760s)
last novel Rajasimha

Paintings
Patna Kalam/ Company Paintings
under the patronage of the East India Company
Relief of Lucknow, painted by Thomas Jones Barker
commemorate the British heroes who saved the
English and repressed the rebels
Kalighat painting: Calcutta, nineteenth century
Bengal School of Paintings
led by Abanindranath Tagore (nephew of
Rabindranath Tagore)