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 Bertolan

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