Birendranath Sasmal and His Contribution to Colonial Bengal 1905 1934

Abstract

SUMMARY and FINDINGS OF THE RESEARCH WORK newline newlineThe historical literature dealing with memoirs, biographies, auto-biographies, diaries etc. is fairly rich and it has no doubt opened new dimensions in exploring areas of research. In India the tradition of historical biography is bears a meaning because it can be traced from ancient time down to our age. The old example of the Ramayana , Rajatarangini, Babarnama, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Discovery of India, India Wins Freedom and some more of such category are concerned with the discovery of a given self but at the same time consciously or unconsciously reflect the happenings in the world round of the concerned personalities. newlineIt is a fact that when a nation seeks its identity, it has to go back deep in to past. Here in this respect the biographies, memoirs or source like auto-biography seem to be valuable in a way that they tempt us for enquiry to answer questions or queries about past human actions as evidences particularly in terms of our social formation and nation making. It may be noted that the frame work of history is one of thought and the biography is one of narration, which revolves round the life story of an individual from birth to death, subject to interpretation. It has already been noted that India is very rich for a galaxy of biographies of many personalities and studies on them have brought to light several points to look at Indian history from different perspectives. Not only in respect of national history but also in terms of regional one the study of biographies are no less important to find out the missing links of our modern historical research- irrespective of time, place and person. In this respect almost all the regions of India provide important examples so as to represent outstanding personalities who had to grapple with objective reality and thereby filtered historical consciousness for the next generations. newline