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    Writing on the Body: Indigenous Medicine and Bangla Periodicals (1850-1901)
    (University of North Bengal, 31-03-2023) Chakravarti, Sunrita
    This paper tries to engage with the discursive construction of the diseased/healthy native body in the essays on health and medicine published in Bangla periodicals in the second half of the nineteenth century like Bibidhartho Sangraha, Chikitsa Sammelani, Rahasya Sandarbhya, Shwasthya, Chikitsak o Somalochak and so on. I have attempted to show how the discourses on indigeneous medicine and the diseased/ healthy body of the native in these essays is a product of contradictory forces – the desire to posit the “difference” vis-a-vis the Western medical discourses and the anxiety of establishing the “scientificity” of indigeneous medicine, particularly Ayurveda. With a focus on textual instances drawn from these essays I have argued how these writings can be seen as an attempt to create a counter discourse against the pathologisation of space and the native body in early to mid-nineteenth century colonial medical discourses.
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    Exploring the History of Empirical Science at Regional Level: A Focus on Koch-Kamrup Kingdom
    (University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Bagchi, Anita
    Growing interest in lndological researches from the end of the 18th century gave birth to new approaches in the study of the oriental culture. The society had deep impact on the intellectuals of the country and it became a self-imposed task of the academics with nationalist feeling to discover and preserve the knowledge and cultural achievement of the past. The work was more or less related to history, language literature etc. Likewise Kamrup Anusandhan Samiti 's work was lo discover and preserve different antiquarian text produced in Assam. In the study of material culture of a country at large regional texts are of inestimable importance. In the present article an attempt will be made to through light on a few regional manuscripts dealing with empirical study.