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Texts of Power : Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal.
Title:
Texts of Power : Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal.
Author:
Chatterjee, Partha.
ISBN:
9780816686865
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1 The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal -- 2 Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature -- 3 Recovering the Nation's Art -- 4 A Modern Science of Politics for the Colonized -- 5 Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family -- 6 A City Away from Home: The Mapping of Calcutta -- 7 Territory and People: The Disciplining of Historical Memory -- Bibliography -- Bengali-language Sources -- European-language Sources -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The contributors consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.
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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