The work attempts to understand complex nuances of the Portuguese presence in sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries in one of the age-old circuits of trade of the Indian Ocean world that existed between Coromandel Coast and island …
This is an attempt to analyse the non-mainstream perspectives as alternatives by critically interpreting the folktales of the four tribal communities who live in the northern part of West Bengal. While focusing on the alternatives in the folktales o…