An Economic History of Bengal 1757-1947 (Hardcover)

Professor M. Mufakharul Islam taught Modern History at Chittagong College, Chittagong University, Dhaka University and Independent University, Bangladesh for more than four decades. At the same time he has remained engaged in research work. He has to his credit two monographs, Bengal Agriculture 1920-1946 : A Quantitative Study (Cambridge, 1978) and Irrigation, Agriculture and the Raj : Punjab 1887-1947 (New Delhi, 1997) and three edited volumes; Studies in Rural History of Bangladesh (Dhaka 1978), Essays in Memory of Momtazur Rahman Tarafdar (Dhaka, 2001) and Essays in Memory of Professor Shafiqur Rahman (Dhaka, 2004) and Dhaka : Economy and Society, vol. 2 (Bangladesh Asiatic Society, Dhaka, 2012). Moreover about 50 research papers by Prof. Islam have been published in standard journals : Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Bangladesh Historical Studies and Dhaka University Studies. The author is currently working as an Honorary Professor in the Department of History, Dhaka University.