Papers by Arabinda Samanta
Malarial fever in Bengal 1820 to 1939 causes and consequences
University, 1995
Smallpox in Nineteenth Century Bengal
Proceedings of Indian National Science Academy, 2014
Smallpox in Nineteenth Century Bengal
The British colonial medical policy of vaccination for smallpox in India served basically as a me... more The British colonial medical policy of vaccination for smallpox in India served basically as a means of negotiating power between the colonialists & the colonized and also as a interface between the multiple ethno-religious communities in the nineteenth century Bengal. The paper seeks to analyse and locate multiple sites of events, happenings and practices how smallpox in colonial Bengal was intervened by indigenous use of inoculation by the t . īka dars and how the disease was interpreted, understood and constructed in the context of people’s collective imagination and cultural tradition.
Crop, Climate and Malaria
Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 29, 2001
Cyclone Hazards and Community Response in Coastal West Bengal: An Anthropo-Historical Perspective
Economic and Political Weekly, 1997
Coastal Bengal is a most vulnerable area because of its repeated exposure to cyclone hazards whic... more Coastal Bengal is a most vulnerable area because of its repeated exposure to cyclone hazards which cause severe damage to human life, property and vegetation. Nevertheless, the residents of the region refuse to migrate elsewhere unless they are forced, or rendered ...
Crop, climate and malaria: ecological construction of an epidemic in colonial Bengal
Economic and Political Weekly, 2001
... increase in the number and distribution of anoph-eles mosquitoes and malaria parasites in the... more ... increase in the number and distribution of anoph-eles mosquitoes and malaria parasites in the ... Fallen leaves in the ponds from the surrounding trees found no time to rot; and ... Cotton cultivators virtually lost interest in the production of cotton since cheap and durable imported ...
Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal
Environmental Cost of a Hydraulic Intervention: Revisiting the Damodar Valley Corporation
Dip-in-Chinese, is now a Reader in History, Vidyasagar University. His major areas of academic in... more Dip-in-Chinese, is now a Reader in History, Vidyasagar University. His major areas of academic interest include Indian histori ography, India's relations with foreign countries like China, and early Indian Numis~ matics. His research work on early Indian historiography earned him the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. He is now engaged in intensive research work. His forthcoming treatise is concerned with the ideas of history in ancient India.A research project conducted by him on the socioeconomic history of modern Lower Bengal has recently come to completion, leading to the award of Ph.D.degree of Vidyasagar University to one of his fellows.
Revisiting a Marginalized Community : The Bone-setters of Bengal
Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal, 1820-1939: Social History of an Epidemic
ABIM started as the bibliography of Jan Meulenbeld's A History of Indian Medical Literature, ... more ABIM started as the bibliography of Jan Meulenbeld's A History of Indian Medical Literature, and was first published on the internet as a set of HTML files in 2002. In the course of 2007 a new website for ABIM and EJIM, the Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine, was created by Roelf ...
Indian Journal of History of Science, 2019
The present paper intends to examine how, during the cholera epidemics of nineteenth century Indi... more The present paper intends to examine how, during the cholera epidemics of nineteenth century India, the colonial state and its people were enmeshed in an interlocking relationship with the British bureaucrats and the colonial physicians. It also seeks to interrogate the dilemma of the pressing imperatives of enforcing sanitary regulations in India as dictated by the international business neighbours visa -vis maintaining the normal functioning of trade and commerce without hurting severely the sentiments of its subjects.
From the beginning of the British occupation of Assam, agricultural as well as industrial operati... more From the beginning of the British occupation of Assam, agricultural as well as industrial operations in the province were heavily compromised by the scourge of malarial fever. Widespread malaria spelt death to many, and the principal industry of the province, the production of tea, was its first casualty. This paper looks into the problem of labour supply to the tea estates of Assam in the period between 1920s and 1930s, and seeks to evaluate the nature of losses caused by the widespread malarial fever. It argues, inter alia, that at least 40% of the labour population, indigenous or immigrant, in the various tea gardens of Assam had experienced the fever at least once a year and that on an average estimate at least 10 labour days per annum were lost directly due to malaria. In some estates where malaria was intensely active at least 50% of the labour days lost was directly and indirectly due to the malarial fever. And significantly the colonial government took little or no notice of...
Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, 2007
The forkhead family protein FOXP3 acts as a repressor of transcription and is both an essential a... more The forkhead family protein FOXP3 acts as a repressor of transcription and is both an essential and sufficient regulator of the development and function of regulatory T cells. The molecular mechanism by which FOXP3-mediated transcriptional repression occurs remains unclear. Here, we report that transcriptional repression by FOXP3 involves a histone acetyltransferase-deacetylase complex that includes histone acetyltransferase TIP60 (Tat-interactive protein, 60 kDa) and class II histone deacetylases HDAC7 and HDAC9. The N-terminal 106 -190 aa of FOXP3 are required for TIP60 -FOXP3, HDAC7-FOXP3 association, as well as for the transcriptional repression of FOXP3 via its forkhead domain. FOXP3 can be acetylated in primary human regulatory T cells, and TIP60 promotes FOXP3 acetylation in vivo. Overexpression of TIP60 but not its histone acetyltransferase-deficient mutant promotes, whereas knockdown of endogenous TIP60 relieved, FOXP3mediated transcriptional repression. A minimum FOXP3 ensemble containing native TIP60 and HDAC7 is necessary for IL-2 production regulation in T cells. Moreover, FOXP3 association with HDAC9 is antagonized by T cell stimulation and can be restored by the protein deacetylation inhibitor trichostatin A, indicating a complex dynamic aspect of T suppressor cell regulation. These findings identify a previously uncharacterized complex-based mechanism by which FOXP3 actively mediates transcriptional repression.
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