Sirajul Islam

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	Bangladesh
Title	Professor of History ; Chief Editor Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
Affiliation	Dhaka University
Email	sirajisl@bangla.net
Mailing Address	Dhaka University Dhaka, Bangladesh House # 21, Rd. # 6 Sector # 4, Uttara Model Town Dhaka, Bangladesh
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phones: +9560500 (office) +8921211 (residence) fax: +7168853
Countries of Specialization	Bangladesh
Research Interests	Area: South Asian History Early specialization in agrarian history of Bengal. Later interest extended to social and economic history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Bengal and American presence in Bengal in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries;
Publications	Permanent Settlement in Bengal (keywords: Bengal, zamindar, land tenure, peasantry), Bengal Land Tenure (keywords: agriculture, raiyat, zamindar, agrarian relations, rights in land, subinfeudation), Villages in the Haor Basin of Bangladesh (keywords: village settlement, haor basin, rural economy, migration, social stratification), Rural History of Bangladesh (keywords: sources of history of rural Bangladesh, archives, district records), Administrative Structure of Colonial Bengal (keywords: colonial rule, administrative structure, district administration, zamindari system), Americans in Bengal (keywords: cargoes, Bay of Bengal, voyages to Bengal, exports and imports), Edited History of Bangladesh, 3 vols. (keywords: economic history of Bangladesh, social and cultural history of Bangladesh, political history of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Revolution), Chief Editor: Banglapedia or National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, 10 vols., with multimedia CD-ROM. (keywords of works: Bengal, Bangladesh, History of Bangladesh, Permanent Settlement, Land Tenure, landed society, zamindars, Village, Haor Basin, Peasantry)
Keywords	Bengal ; Zamindar ; land tenure ; peasantry ; Haor basin.