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The analysis is stimulating, elegant, and novel. Choice Kaviraj's narrative about the state in India is an important one, and it is high time these influential papers were collected in one volume. -- Sailen Routray Contemporary South Asia

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Introduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity 1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian 2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity 3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 4. A Strange Love of Abstractions: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali 5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love 6. The Poetry of Interiority: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry 7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature 8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films 9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry 10. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography 11. The Second Mahabharata Index

The Imaginary Institution of India

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 04/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780231152235, 978-0231152235
      ISBN10: 023115223X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      The analysis is stimulating, elegant, and novel. Choice Kaviraj's narrative about the state in India is an important one, and it is high time these influential papers were collected in one volume. -- Sailen Routray Contemporary South Asia

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity 1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian 2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity 3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 4. A Strange Love of Abstractions: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali 5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love 6. The Poetry of Interiority: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry 7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature 8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films 9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry 10. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography 11. The Second Mahabharata Index

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