Chap 1 ‘Metaphor, Metamorphosis and Knowledge in the Renaissance’ by Gian Mario Anselmi; Chap 2 ‘Relating to the Past: The Differing Attitudes of Dante and Petrarch’ by Maria Cecila Bertolani; Chap 3 ‘Renaissance and Reformation’ by Amlan Das Gupta; Chap 4 ‘The Ethical Dimension of Humanistic Philology’ by Andrea Severi; Chap 5 ‘The Rustle of History: Nationalism and the Vernacular in the French Renaissance’ by Niranjan Goswami; Chap 6 ‘The Paradigm of the Renaissance as Viewed in Nineteenth-century France’ by Sudesna Chakrabarti; Chap 7 ‘Humanism and Orientalism: Life after Rebirth’ by Sukanta Chaudhuri; Chap 8 ‘Some Distinctive Features of the Bengal Renaissance’ by Alok Ray; Chap 9 ‘Rehearsing the Renaissance: Some Symptomatic Texts from Nineteenth-century Bengal’ by Swapan Chakravorty; Chap 10 ‘Renaissance in Bengal: A Colonial Reincarnation’ by Swapan Majumdar; Chap 11 ‘The Bengali Language: A Colonial Renaissance’ by Biswajit Ray; Chap 12 ‘Women, Rebirth and Reform in Nineteenth-century Bengal’ by Supriya Chaudhuri; Chap 13 ‘Science and the Renaissance: The Case of Bengal’ by Kunal Chattopadhyay