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The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India

By Sudipta Kaviraj

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
019563294X, 9780195632941, 0195645855
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13479729 bytes)
Series
SOAS Studies on South Asia
Pages
194\200
Time added
2022-03-07 09:52:28

Description

This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be seen in a different, historical context.

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