Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History, Vol. 16

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Note from the Editor-in-Chief

On behalf of the Department of History, University of North Bengal, it is our privilege to present to the readers the Volume 16 (2023) of the Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History. The journal has incorporated the research papers from Ancient, Medieval, Modern Indian History and Contemporary History as well. The Volume 16 is being published after all the articles having been refereed and peer reviewed with the ISSN 2229-4880. The Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History.

The editors of the journal should not be judged for the facts stated, opinions expressed and conclusions reached in the articles. It is entirely the authors concern and the editors of the journal do not accept any responsibility for the same.

It is our solemn duty to express our gratitude to our Honorable Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Finance Officer for their generous concern on this 'Academic Endeavour'. We are thankful to our colleagues of the Department of History for their warm encouragement and necessary cooperation for publishing this journal.

We are also grateful to all the contributors for providing valuable research papers. Last but not least, the Officials and the Staffs of the North Bengal University Press deserve heartiest thanks for their cooperation in printing the journal within limited span of time.

VARUN KUMAR ROY

TAHITI SARKAR

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    Understanding Education System in Colonial Jalpaiguri Town (1869-1947)
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Singhania, Taruna
    In the Colonial period Jalpaiguri was one of the well-known town. The British had formed Jalpaiguri district on 1st January 1869, through a Gazette notification for their administrative interest. After the district formation there spread of education started. In the Bengal State Conference,1939, Dr. Charu Chandra Sanyal told, Jalpaiguri’s educational ratio was 8% in between only 1% was women. But there had been gradual development in the education system from the pre-colonial period to colonial period. In colonial period the spread of education started through the primary schools, after that gradually established secondary school, colleges, libraries, girl’s schools (women education also started). In that time some magazines also published. Jalpaiguri Municipality had also contribution in the spread of education in colonial Jalpaiguri town but certain area has not been touched. The proposed article intends to understand the nature of education system in Colonial Jalpaiguri town.
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    The Journey between Two Lands: A Study of the Indo- Bangladesh Women Migration with Special Reference to Jalpaiguri District
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Rakshit, Srija
    The work, women in border area, the author wishes to highlight the ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia, particularly in the major areas of Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal which shares it’s border with the country of Bangladesh. The author attempts to examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, who are its markers and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. The borders become zones, where the power and control of one state ends and the other begins. The result is the startling revelation that women not only live on the borders, but in many ways, they form them and are a crucial part of them. The borders become symbolic of spaces where socio-economic and political contests of inclusion and exclusion are played out every day. The work wishes to elaborate the ways in which women negotiate their differences within a state, which in the guise of being democratic, denies space to differences based on ethnicity, religion, class, or gender. Borders become hostile zones of widespread aggression, where masculinity is privileged. It shows how most of the traditional efforts made to make geopolitical regions more secure, are nothing but attempts to privilege a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. The India–Bangladesh border is negotiated and reproduced in the everyday spaces of people living in the borderland that is often overlooked by the usual representation of geopolitical nationalism and hard realities of the barbed wire.