Notions of Nationhood in Bengal : Perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905.
Title:
Notions of Nationhood in Bengal : Perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905.
Author:
Gupta, Swarupa.
ISBN:
9789047429586
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (424 pages)
Series:
Philosophy of History and Culture ; v.29
Philosophy of History and Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas and their Dissemination -- Chapter Two. Recreating a Jati -- ChapterThree. Samaj and Perspectives on Unity -- Chapter Four. Caste, Class and Internal 'Others': 'Lower Orders' in Bengal -- Chapter Five. Contiguous Ethnicities -- Chapter Six. Sub-Regional 'Essences' and the Regional Self -- Chapter Seven. FromRegion to Nation:The Idea of India -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract:
This book opens fresh ways of rethinking colonial nationalisms, qualifying derivative, political and modernist paradigms. Introducing the category of samaj (cultural entity), it shows how indigenous socio-cultural origins were reconfigured in modern Bengali-Indian nationhood to conceptualise unities and mediate fragmentation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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