Notions of nationhood in Bengal : perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905 /
Gupta, Swarupa.
Notions of nationhood in Bengal : perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905 / by Swarupa Gupta. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Philosophy of History and Culture 29. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222854. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chapter One. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas And Their Dissemination / Chapter Two. Recreating A Jati / Chapter Three. 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. From Region To Nation: The Idea Of India / Conclusion / Bibliography / Glossary / Index / S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta.
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This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond ‘derivative’, ‘borrowed’, political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities. The mapping of cultural continuities through change facilitates a more nuanced investigation of the ontology of nationhood, seeing it as related to, but more than political nationalism. It outlines a fresh paradigm for recalibrating postcolonial identities, offering interpretive strategies to mediate fragmentation.
9789047429586
10.1163/ej.9789004176140.i-414 DOI
2009013694
Bengal (India)--Autonomy and independence movements.
Bengal (India)--History--19th century.
Bengal (India)--Intellectual life--19th century.
DS485.B49 / G853 2009
954/.14035
Notions of nationhood in Bengal : perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905 / by Swarupa Gupta. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Philosophy of History and Culture 29. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222854. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chapter One. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas And Their Dissemination / Chapter Two. Recreating A Jati / Chapter Three. 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. From Region To Nation: The Idea Of India / Conclusion / Bibliography / Glossary / Index / S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta -- S. Gupta.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond ‘derivative’, ‘borrowed’, political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities. The mapping of cultural continuities through change facilitates a more nuanced investigation of the ontology of nationhood, seeing it as related to, but more than political nationalism. It outlines a fresh paradigm for recalibrating postcolonial identities, offering interpretive strategies to mediate fragmentation.
9789047429586
10.1163/ej.9789004176140.i-414 DOI
2009013694
Bengal (India)--Autonomy and independence movements.
Bengal (India)--History--19th century.
Bengal (India)--Intellectual life--19th century.
DS485.B49 / G853 2009
954/.14035