Memoirs As History: Contextualising Bengal

History is not about emperors, their victories and defeats. History is about subjects, who are ruled and remain a part and parcel of a society. Autobiographies, personal memoirs throw light on the authors contemporary times as well as reflect their mental pre occupation towards the society . Personal interpretation of a society with all its limitations has emerged as a definite toll to have an insight to interpret the past. This is a journey from particular to general as opposed to general to particular. This edited volume is a collection of articles based on two biographies, an autobiography, women's self writing, government documents, tribal narratives which are discussed with reference to Bengal.