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Bengal was the first "modern" province in India - the first, that is, to undergo a forced encounter with Western modernity. From this point of view, the writers in this book consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.

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The disciplines in colonial Bengal, Partha Chatterjee; Disciplining the printed text - colonial and nationalist surveillance of Bengali literature, Tapti Roy; Recovering the nation's art, Tapati Guha-Thakurta; A modern science of politics for the colonized, Partha Chatterjee; Sons of the nation - child rearing in the new family, Pradip Kumar Bose; A city away from home - the mapping of Calcutta, Keya Dasgupta; Territory and people - the disciplining of historical memory, Ranabir Samaddar.

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 11/7/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816626878, 978-0816626878
      ISBN10: 0816626871

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bengal was the first "modern" province in India - the first, that is, to undergo a forced encounter with Western modernity. From this point of view, the writers in this book consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.

      Table of Contents
      The disciplines in colonial Bengal, Partha Chatterjee; Disciplining the printed text - colonial and nationalist surveillance of Bengali literature, Tapti Roy; Recovering the nation's art, Tapati Guha-Thakurta; A modern science of politics for the colonized, Partha Chatterjee; Sons of the nation - child rearing in the new family, Pradip Kumar Bose; A city away from home - the mapping of Calcutta, Keya Dasgupta; Territory and people - the disciplining of historical memory, Ranabir Samaddar.

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