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Author Gupta, Swarupa.

Title Notions of nationhood in Bengal : perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905 / by Swarupa Gupta.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 408 pages).
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Series Philosophy of history and culture, 0922-6001 ; v. 29
Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 29.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-377) and index.
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.
Summary Intends to open fresh ways of rethinking colonial nationalisms, qualifying derivative, political and modernist paradigms. Introducing the category of samaj (cultural entity), this book shows how indigenous socio-cultural origins were reconfigured in modern Bengali-Indian nationhood to conceptualise unities and mediate fragmentation.
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Subject Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Bengal (India) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Geschichte 1867-1905
Indexed Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gupta, Swarupa. Notions of nationhood in Bengal. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 (DLC) 2009013694
ISBN 9789004176140 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004176144 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789047429586 (electronic book)
9047429583 (electronic book)
1282401378
9781282401372
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004176140.i-414

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