Rajat Kanta Ray

Background

Education

Career

Books

• The Felt Community: Commonality and Mentality Before the Emergence of Indian Nationalism,
• Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality, and Literature in the Indian Awakening
• Mind, Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal
• Palasir Sharayantra O Sekaler Samaj
• Entrepreneurship and Industry in India 1800-1947
• , Dissent and Consensus: Protest in Pre-Industrial Societies
• Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal 1875-1927
• The Evolution of the Professional Structure in Modern India: Older and New Professions in a Changing Society
• Urban Roots of Indian Nationalism: Pressure Groups and Conflict of Interests in Calcutta City Politics, 1875-1939
• Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914-47

  Articles

• "Prasanga Rabindranath: Jivandevatar Jivani"
• "Foreword" to D.A. Low Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917 - 47,
• "Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy" in P.J. Marshall and Alaine Low, The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. II, The Eighteenth Century,
• "Merchants and Politics: From the Great Mughals to the East India Company", with Lakshmi Subramanian, in Dwijendra Tripathi, Business and Politics in India: A historical perspective,
• "The Raj, the Congress and the Bengal Gentry 1880-1905" in Rajat Kanta Ray, Basudeb Chattopadhyay and Hari S. Vasudevan, Dissent and Consensus: Protest in Pre-Industrial Societies,
• "The Retreat of the Jotedars?" Indian Economic and Social History Review, 25. 2, 1988
• "The Bazar: Indigenous Sector of the Indian Economy" in Dwijendra Tripathi, Business Communities of India,
• "Pedhis and Mills: The Historical Integration of Formal and Informal Sectors in the Economy of Ahmedabad", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 19:3 & 4, 1982
• , "Zamindars and Jotedars: A Study in Rural Politics in Bengal", Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 9, 1, 1975, pp. 81–102
• "The Crisis in Bengal Agriculture 1870-1927: The Dynamics of Immobility", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 10, 3, 1973, pp. 244–279
• , "The Dynamics of Continuum in Rural Bengal under the British Imperium", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 10, 2, 1973, pp. 103–128