History of Sriniketan : Rabindranath Tagore's pioneering work in rural reconstruction
Publication details: New Delhi Niyogi Books 2022Description: 234pISBN:- 9789391125448
- 338.1 DAS
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | General | 338.1 GUP | Available | 023705 |
Contents
Introduction 9
Why Selidaha? Why Sriniketan?
Why Rural Reconstruction? 20
The Sriniketan Work Begins 30
The Land Problem, Nationalists, and Rabindranath 40
The Mentality of the Villages 46
Aims, Objects, and Activities of Sriniketan 53
Agriculture and Industries at Sriniketan 60
The Village Welfare Department, Sriniketan 68
Siksha-Satra and Other Educational Institutions 77
Anti-Malaria Research and Cooperative Health Societies 84
Sriniketan in the 1930s: A Changing Scenario 93
Some Endemic Problems, Some Tentative Conclusions 101
Notes 115
Bibliography 125
Appendices 130
Appendix I: Rural Survey Ballabhpur (pages from original 1-40) 130
Appendix II: Three Village Economic Studies on Rice (pages from original 1-18) 174
Appendix III: Sample of Handbills Used for Sensitizing the Villagers 198
Appendix IV: Varieties of Signature Handicraft Made in Sriniketan (pages from original 1-5) 200
Acknowledgements 207
Visuals of Sriniketan from the Rabindra-Bhavana Archive Collection 208
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