Sumit Chakrabarti

Local Selfhood, Global Turns (eBook, PDF)

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009383936
• Artikelnr.: 70910896

Autorenporträt

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a historian straddling the fields of culture studies and postcolonial studies. His areas of expertise are Nineteenth-Century Bengal, intellectual history, and postcolonial and cultural studies. His most recent monograph is titled The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude (Routledge, 2020) and the editor of the forthcoming Oxford World's Classics edition of the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Discontents of Eclecticism: The Milieu of Akshay Kumar Dutta
2. The New World of Science: Akshay Dutta as the 'Science Worker'
3. The Tattwabodhini Period: The Conflicting Contours of Self-Fashioning or Towards a Global History?
4. Reconstructing Bengali Selfhood: The Conception of Dharma in Akshay and Bankim
5. On the Question of the Public Sphere: Civic Life, Polity, Dissent, and an Affective Engagement with the Janasamaj
6. Imagining Bharatvarsha: Identity, History, Nationhood
Conclusion and Further Thoughts
Index.