Introduction: A Liberal Arts College in a Colonial Milieu Rochona Majumdar, Sukanya Sarbadhikary and Upal Chakrabarti; Part I: 1. The Multi-Institutional Form of the Presidency College Upal Chakrabarti; 2. Useful Knowledge, Areligious modernity: Pioneering Global Trends in Education at the Hindu College, 1817-1835 Rosinka Chaudhuri; 3. Seductions of the Supercilious: The Mofussil Histories of Presidency College, Calcutta Bodhisattva Kar; Part II: 4. The Rise and Fall of College Square Common Sense: A History of Philosophy at the Hindu and Presidency College Thomas Newbold; 5. Relentless Discursivity: Political Economy at the Hindu College/Presidency College in the Nineteenth Century Iman Mitra; 6. J. C.

Bose's hand-machines: Instrumentation as the Transcendence of Limits in Presidency College Sukanya Sarbadhikary and Upal Chakrabarti; 7. Chemical Vernaculars: Chemistry and Vernacularity in Twentieth Century Bengal Projit Bihari Mukharji; 8. A Chemistry Lab for Presidency College: Reading Between the Lines of A Historic Floorplan Madhumita Mazumdar; 9. P. C. Mahalanobis and the Question of Research at Presidency College Sandipan Mitra; Part III: 10. Remembered Teachers: Who and Why? Rochona Majumdar; 11. Politics in Print: The World in the Magazine, The World of the Magazine Titas De Sarkar; 12.

Contours of Commemoration: Locating Material Mnemonics in the Hindu/Presidency College Sohini Sengupta and Sourav Chattopadhyay; Afterword Dipesh Chakrabarty; Appendix; Acknowledgments.