Download or read book Notions of Nationhood in Bengal Perspectives on Samaj c 1867 1905 written by Swarupa Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Notions of Nationhood in Bengal written by Swarupa Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bengali Nationalism and the Emergence of Bangladesh written by A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performing Nationhood written by Mimasha Pandit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burgeoning public space and audibility of voices hitherto unheard presented a two-way problem, for the colonisers, as well as for the colonised. The thinking mind that hid behind a facade of obedience suddenly appeared before all. The transparent veil separating the hidden from the manifest was torn apart. In the context of swadeshi and boycott agitation, performative spaces like theatre, jatra, and songs did not just serve as a forum for disseminating the notions of nationhood put forward by the intellectuals. The ideas gained a life of their own once they were placed in the performative space. Encompassing both the performer and the audience/recipient of the ideas, the notion underwent a change at various planes of consciousness. The notion of nation, as disseminated by the performances, acquired a different meaning at the level of enactment, and attained an entirely new substance when received by the audience. None of these exchanges occurred in complete passivity of any one party present in the performative space. Consequently, the emergent emotion of nationhood developed as a nuanced image of ‘self’. This book has tried to locate the beginning of that emotion of national ‘self’.
Download or read book Performing Nationhood written by Mimasha Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves as the corridor to one's 'self'. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burgeoning public space and audibility of voices hitherto unheard presented a 2-way problem, for the colonisers, as well as for the colonised.
Download or read book Science and Nationalism in Bengal 1876 1947 written by Chittabrata Palit and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles with reference to Bengal, India, and erstwhile East Bengal (Pakistan), now Bangladesh.
Download or read book Nationalism and Separatism in Bengal written by Soumitra De and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bangladeshi Nationalism written by Shireen Hasan Osmany and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes references to the politics of pre-partition Bengal.
Download or read book Nationalism and the Problem of Difference written by Semanti Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the principal claims of the nationalist ideology in colonial India was to unite various groups and interests into a singular political and ideological system in order to create a common national platform against the British. However, the nationalist agenda faced a grave dilemma on this count, because the real or perceived elements of 'difference' within the society constantly challenged the ideas of a singular nation-hood. Nationalist discourse and politics, therefore, suffered from the tension between the indivisibility of the national interest on the one hand, and the disparateness of various community, class or caste interests on the other. Focusing mainly on religious differences, my thesis explores this dilemma in the context of Bengali nationalism between the Swadeshi movement (1905) and the Independence and Partition (1947). Through a study of the ideological formulations and political experimentations of the Bengali Muslims and Bengali Hindus, I show that the nationalist predicament is to be understood in terms of the controversies around the questions of national sovereignty and the principles of representation for a national-democratic society. As a consequence of the contesting ideas on these key issues, there emerged multiple visions of the nation, which continued to negotiate throughout this era. The nation envisaged by C.R. Das, Fazlul Huq, Abul Hashim and many other Bengali political and intellectual leaders was different from the Congress notion of a centralized nation-state of India. The Pakistan movement in Bengal was primarily based on such alternative ideas of the post-colonial state, with a demand for greater decentralization and fair representation of different communities and groups at all levels of the state and society. Central to these alternative nationalisms was a strong sense of regional patriotism, which actually opened up negotiating grounds for resolving the riddles of representation and sovereignty in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Socio political Currents in Bengal written by Bhabani Bhattacharya and published by Sahibabad, Distt. Ghaziabad : Vikas. This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shortened Version Of The Author`S Ph.D Dissertation - The Intellectual Revival - Early Political Associations - The Indigo Revolt - Struggle For Social Reform - Rise Of Nationalism - Years Of Unrest And Preparations - Bibliography - Index. Without Dustjacket.
Download or read book The Defining Moments in Bengal written by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores some of the constitutive elements in the life and mind of Bengal in the twentieth century. The author addresses some frequently unasked questions about the history of modern Bengal. In what way was twentieth-century Bengal different from 'Renaissance' Bengal of the late-nineteenth century? How was a regional identity consciousness redefined? Did the lineaments of politics in Bengal differ from the pattern in the rest of India? What social experiences drove the Muslim community's identity perception? How did Bengal cope with such crises as the impact of World War II, the famine of 1943 and the communal clashes that climaxed with the Calcutta riots of 1946? The author has chosen a significant period in the history of the region and draws on a wealth of sources archival and published documents, mainstream dailies, a host of rare Bengali magazines, memoirs and the literature of the time to tell his story. Looking closely at the momentous changes taking place in the region's economy, politics and socio-cultural milieu in the historically transformative years 1920-47, this book highlights myriad issues that cast a shadow on the decades that followed, arguably till our times.
Download or read book Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal written by Rosinka Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive historical research and a detailed examination of the English poetry written by Indians in the nineteenth century in its social, historical, and political contexts, reveals the engagement of the colonized with one of the implements of colonization the English language. This study shows how the intertextuality that existed between this body of verse and concurrent Orientalist scholarship on the ancient Indian heritage resulted, ultimately in a complex appropriation, by the Indians, of British scholarship on India for nationalist, literary, social, and personal issues, such as its anticipation of the formation of the modern Indian identity. A thorough examination of the correlation between the poetry and its background uncovers certain startling differences between current perceptions of colonial relations and actual historical records. For example, the common belief that English education was imposed upon the colonized is reversed through an examination of the Indians own initiative in this field long before the missionaries or Macaulay s famous minute. Similarly, the claim that all English education in India was a vehicle for the Christianizing of natives is refuted through the personal reminiscences of David Hare, eminent educationist, who opposed it vehemently. The author examines works by Henry Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudhan Dutt, the Dutt family, and, in conclusion, the poems of Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Refuting a simple equation of the exploitation of knowledge as power between the colonizer and the colonized, the author argues for a more nuanced approach, positing that the complexities of the situation meant also an active appropriation of Orientalist scholarship by Indians for their own ends: they tended to take just that which they found good and liked best . This would grant an agency to the colonial Indian subject which has so far gone unrecognized, and place a whole body of colonial verse in the situational flux of interchange and assimilation. This work asserts that it is time now to listen to what the orient made of its interaction with the West, and to lend an ear to what the colonized said. Rosinka Chaudhuri is a scholar of literary criticism and history from Oxford, who specializes in nineteenth-century Bengal. She is a Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her articles have appeared in several journals and anthologies.
Download or read book The Educated Middle Class and Indian Nationalism written by Asoka Kumar Sen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Militant Nationalism in Bengal written by Richard Leonard Park and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Different Nationalisms written by Semantī Ghosha and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Tufts University, 1999.
Download or read book Various Bengal written by Tarasankar Banerjee and published by Calcutta : Ratna Prakashan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Different Nationalisms written by Semantī Ghosha and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work claims that there were many different nationalisms in colonial Bengal. It shows that Bengali Muslims were not opposed to Hindu-Muslim unity, but keen to work on this unity on a regional level. It also shows that Bengali Hindu nationalism was also not a homogeneous body of thought.
