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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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