Pritam Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya, affiliated to the University of Burdwan. His research interests lie at the intersection of colonial Bengal, intellectual history, and imperial historiography, with a particular focus on the production and circulation of colonial knowledge. He has published in academic journals and volumes on colonial governance, vernacular responses to empire, and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Bengal. He has also been involved in several important translation projects.

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• Introduction; 1. Hunter's Rural Bengal; 2. The Politics of Imperial Knowledge: reading The Indian Musalmans in Context; 3. Grand Grids of Information: the making of A Statistical Account of Bengal; 4. The late-Nineteenth-Century Bengali Intelligentsia; 5. Bankimchandra's British Source: Anandamath and The Annals of Rural Bengal; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Pritam Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya, affiliated to the University of Burdwan. His research interests lie at the intersection of colonial Bengal, intellectual history, and imperial historiography, with a particular focus on the production and circulation of colonial knowledge. He has published in academic journals and volumes on colonial governance, vernacular responses to empire, and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Bengal. He has also been involved in several important translation projects.

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• Introduction; 1. Hunter's Rural Bengal; 2. The Politics of Imperial Knowledge: reading The Indian Musalmans in Context; 3. Grand Grids of Information: the making of A Statistical Account of Bengal; 4. The late-Nineteenth-Century Bengali Intelligentsia; 5. Bankimchandra's British Source: Anandamath and The Annals of Rural Bengal; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Pritam Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya, affiliated to the University of Burdwan. His research interests lie at the intersection of colonial Bengal, intellectual history, and imperial historiography, with a particular focus on the production and circulation of colonial knowledge. He has published in academic journals and volumes on colonial governance, vernacular responses to empire, and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Bengal. He has also been involved in several important translation projects.

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• Introduction; 1. Hunter's Rural Bengal; 2. The Politics of Imperial Knowledge: reading The Indian Musalmans in Context; 3. Grand Grids of Information: the making of A Statistical Account of Bengal; 4. The late-Nineteenth-Century Bengali Intelligentsia; 5. Bankimchandra's British Source: Anandamath and The Annals of Rural Bengal; Conclusion; Bibliography.