Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns

Bashabi Fraser is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing and Director of Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University; Honorary Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow and Honorary Vice President of the Association of Literary Studies (ALS), Scotland and an associate Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Professor Emerita at Bankura University, West Bengal, India. Bashabi is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor and academic.Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is the Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He is also the Secretary of the Indian Association of Scottish Studies. He has published and co-edited many scholarly books, and is the author of innumerable papers. He is also the international contributing editor of the Journal of American History (Indiana, USA). He is the Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.

• 1. ForewordIan Brown2. IntroductionBashabi Fraser and Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay3. ‘Webs of Significance: Rammohun Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore Kathryn Simpson4. “When you see millions of mouthless dead”: Scottish Poetry ofthe Great War (1914-18)Argha Kumar Banerjee5. A Cakewalk between Asansol and Dundee: Material Manifestations of A Colonial Thirdspace in a Bengali Industrial TownSantanu Banerjee, Suvojit Chatterjee Edward Hollis and Hemonta Mondal6. From Alexander Hamilton to Patrick Geddes: New Nature Writing and IndiaDebarati Bandyopadhyay7. The Ambivalence of Tolerance: William Wilson Hunter and the Rise of Surveillance Literature in Colonial BengalPritam Mukherjee8. Telling the Tale of the Garden Zoological: Exploring Scottish Animal Stories of Andrew Lang through an Ecological LensRitushree Sengupta9. The Scottish Church College and the Scots Missionaries: Continuities and InfluencesKaberi Chatterjee10. The Kinetic Mission of Kalimpong: The Enduring Mission of Rev Dr John Anderson Graham and Dr Graham’s Homes in the History of Scottish Foreign MissionsSubhadeep Paul11. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Scottish Transactions in Nineteenth-Century BengalNandini Bhattacharya12. The Transnational Poet: Re-negotiating the Dichotomy ofHomeland and HostlandBashabi Fraser13. “Disruptions”: Rise of Free Church of Scotland and its Impacton Bengali Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth CenturyDeb Narayan Bandyopadhyay14. David Hare and Patrick Geddes: The Scottish Legacy in BengalSaptarshi Mallick15. Of Rights to Expression & Information under the Indian andScottish Legal Systems: A Comparative AnalysisSubir Kumar Roy and Jayanta Kumar Saha