Tithi Bhattacharya

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence

A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

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Produktbeschreibung

Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in a dialogue with European science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030713
• ISBN-10: 1478030712
• Artikelnr.: 69564256

Autorenporträt

Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal, 1848–1885, and coauthor of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Conventions  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Uncanny Histories: Ghosts, Fear, and Reason in Colonial
Bengal  1
1. “Undisciplined, Playful and Yet Bhadra”: Old Ghosts and Their Advocates
in an Age of Enlightenment  22
2. The New Spirits  55
3. Deadly Spaces: Haunted Homes and Haunting Histories  82
4. Enacting Ghosts: New Spirits, New Rituals  97
5. National Ghosts, Ghostly Nations  130
Conclusion. Thinking about Ends and Beginnings  155
Notes  159
Bibliography  187
Index  203