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1 online resource (xiv, 650 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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SUNY series in Hindu studies
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SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Bhakti and samaj: social reform and religious modernity -- Rammohun Roy and the break with the past -- The complexities of "Young Bengal" -- The pattern and structure of early nationalist activity in Bengal -- The radicalism of intellectuals: a case study of nineteenth-century Bengal -- One or many histories? Identity formations in late-colonial Bengal -- Kaliyuga, chakri, and bhakti: Ramakrishna and his times -- Vidyasagar and Brahmanical society -- The Kalki-avatar of Bikrampur: a village scandal in early-twentieth-century Bengal -- Part 2. Nationalists and subalterns -- Nationalism: ideology and mobilisation -- The conditions and nature of subaltern militancy: Bengal from Swadeshi to non-cooperation, 1905-1922 -- Primitive rebellion and modern nationalism: Forest satyagraha in the non-cooperation and disobedience movements -- The logic of Gandhian nationalism: Disobedience and the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, 1930-1931 -- Popular movements and national leadership, 1945-1947 -- The return of labour to South Asian history -- Part 3. Tributes -- Thinking about P.C. Joshi -- Edward Thompson -- In memory of Eric Hobsbawm. |
| Summary |
For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: "Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument." Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885-1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar's finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
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Nationalism -- India.
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Nationalism. |
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India. |
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Social change -- India.
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Bengal (India) -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
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Social change. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. |
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India -- Bengal. |
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British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) |
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1765-1947 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sarkar, Sumit, 1939- Works. Selections. Essays of a lifetime. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019] 1438474318 9781438474311 (OCoLC)1063746030 |
| ISBN |
9781438474335 electronic book |
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1438474334 electronic book |
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9781438474311 |
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1438474318 |
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