History of Bengali Literature in the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1825
Author: Sushil Kumar De
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 538
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Bengali Literature in the Nineteenth Century, 1757-1857
Author: Sushil Kumar De
Publisher: Calcutta : Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Author: Sunayani Bhattacharya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2023-07-13
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1501398482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader's choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.
India's Literary History
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9788178240565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning A Range Of Topics-Print Culture And Oral Tales, Drama And Gender, Library Use And Publishing History, Theatre And Audiences, Detective Fiction And Low-Caste Novels-This Book Will Appeal To Historians, Cultural Theorists, Sociologists And All Interested In Understanding The Multiplicity Of India`S Cultural Traditions And Literary Histories.
From Little London to Little Bengal
Author: Daniel E. White
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2013-12-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1421411644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow literary and religious traffic between Bengal and Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries impelled a complex and contested cosmopolitan imperial culture. From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a “Little London,” while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as “Little Bengal.” Circling between the two, this study reads British and Indian literary, religious, and historical sources alongside newspapers, panoramas, religious festivals, idols, and museum exhibitions. Together and apart, Britons and Bengalis waged a transcultural agon under the dynamic conditions of early nineteenth-century imperialism, struggling to claim cosmopolitan perspectives and, in the process, to define modernity. Daniel E. White shows how an ambivalent Protestant contact with Hindu devotion shaped understandings of the imperial mission for Britons and Indians during the period. Investigating global metaphors of circulation and mobility, communication and exchange, commerce and conquest, he follows the movements of people, ideas, books, art, and artifacts initiated by writers, publishers, educators, missionaries, travelers, and reformers. Along the way, he places luminaries like Romantic poet Robert Southey and Hindu reformer Rammohun Roy in dialogue with a fascinating array of lesser-known figures, from the Baptist missionaries of Serampore and the radical English journalist James Silk Buckingham to the mixed-race prodigy Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. In concert and in conflict, these cultural emissaries and activists articulated national and cosmopolitan perspectives that were more than reactions on the part of marginal groups to the metropolitan center of power and culture. The British Empire in India involved recursive transactions between the global East and West, channeling cultural, political, and religious formations that were simultaneously distinct and shared, local, national, and transnational.
Palamou
Author: Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-02-10
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781495473302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, primarily a travelogue, is an early specimen of cultural anthropology which gives an urban reader a refreshing and authentic view of the life style of the tribal population in Indian forests. The lives of the Kole community, their culture and belief-system, their social structure have been limned with sensitive and vibrant details by the author here. As such, the elements of wonder and amazement in the book are never really exhausted. Secondly, Sanjibchandra's style of narration which combines an analytic mind with an ever-wakeful, vivacious child-like curiosity enlivens the spirit of reading, imparting an adventure-like quality to his writing. Thirdly, Sanjibchandra had tremendous mastery over deploying metaphors and similes which makes the places and sights that he describes immediately palpable. Fourthly, in many pages of the narration the agony and the ignominy of being under the colonial rule make themselves felt and manifest which makes for an interesting study for the post-colonial critics. And last but not least, Sanjibchandra's aesthetics, his notions of beauty permeate and intersperse the narrative to such an extent that these may also be critically interesting to the researchers. In fine, it is a thoroughly enjoyable book for the lay readers and a thought-provoking book for the serious researchers.
The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905
Author: Meredith Borthwick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1400843901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period—over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education—to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about "advances" prompted by British rule. Focusing on the wives, mothers, and daughters of the English-educated Bengali professional class, Dr. Borthwick contends that many reforms merely substituted a restrictive British definition of womanhood for traditional Hindu norms. The positive gains for women—increased physical freedom, the acquisition of literacy, and limited entry to nondomestic work—often brought unforeseen negative consequences, such as a reduction in autonomy and power in the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Europe Reconsidered
Author: Tapan Raychaudhuri
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of the changing perceptions of, and attitudes towards Europe in nineteenth-century Bengal among the Bengali intelligentsia examines in detail the ideas of three key men during a time of social, cultural, and intellectual confrontation between the East and the West: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Swami Vivekananda. It explores their attempts to grapple with the intellectual dilemma of their times as represented by the East-West encounter. The three men possessed considerable scholarship and erudition, and came from the same social milieu of upper-class urban Bengal, yet each had very different perceptions of the West. The nineteenth-century Bengali experience under colonialism was part of a global phenomenon inasmuch as the province, like many other areas of Asia, was subject to European imperialism. Bengal was thus "perhaps the earliest manifestation of the revolution in the mental world of Asia's elite groups." Nearer home, it represented the general experience of the Indian subcontinent as a whole, but at "its most complex and well informed level." These changing perceptions and attitudes mediated all new initiatives in the society and polity of Asian peoples in modern times. The changes, in their turn, were crucially influenced by perceptions of Europe. The author explores the ideas regarding Europe as presented in the writings of these three very influential writers, who represented as well as shaped widely held opinions. The book touches on orientalism, hermeneutics, cultural contact between Europe and Asia, European expansion, the nineteenth-century 'Renaissance' in India, and the colonial middle classes in Asia. It is a significant addition to the meagre literature available on Indian perceptions of the West. In his new introduction to this new edition the author links the book to the wider themes in his current research; he also explains points in his argument which, he feels, have been misunderstood. Appended to this edition is a memorial lecture by the author in honour of his teacher, Susobhan Sarkar, which reassesses the concept of the 'Bengal Renaissance.'
Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature
Author: Amaresh Datta
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9788126011940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Major Activity Of The Sahitya Akademi Is The Preparation Of An Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature. The Venture, Covering Twenty-Two Languages Of India, Is The First Of Its Kind. Written In English, The Encyclopaedia Gives A Comprehensive Idea Of The Growth And Development Of Indian Literature. The Entries On Authors, Books And General Topics Have Been Tabulated By The Concerned Advisory Boards And Finalised By A Steering Committee. Hundreds Of Writers All Over The Country Contributed Articles On Various Topics. The Encyclopaedia, Planned As A Six-Volume Project, Has Been Brought Out. The Sahitya Akademi Embarked Upon This Project In Right Earnest In 1984. The Efforts Of The Highly Skilled And Professional Editorial Staff Started Showing Results And The First Volume Was Brought Out In 1987. The Second Volume Was Brought Out In 1988, The Third In 1989, The Fourth In 1991, The Fifth In 1992, And The Sixth Volume In 1994. All The Six Volumes Together Include Approximately 7500 Entries On Various Topics, Literary Trends And Movements, Eminent Authors And Significant Works. The First Three Volume Were Edited By Prof. Amaresh Datta, Fourth And Fifth Volume By Mohan Lal And Sixth Volume By Shri K.C.Dutt.
Bengal
Author: J. N. Nanda
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9788180691492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Critically Analyses The Various Historical Events Which Led To Bengal`S Political, Cultural And Religious Developments Over The Centuries. Going Deep Into The Renaissance That First Dawned In Bengal, It Discusses In Detail Its Arts And Crafts, Literature, Trade And Industry, Religious Harmony And Adventourous Spirit. Further Highlighting The Nationalist Activities Of Bengal, The Book Also Takes Note Of Contributions Made By Bengali Intellectuals In The Fields Of Art, Literature, Education, Political Awareness And Social Reforms.
