What Happened to the Bhadralok
Author | : Parimal Ghosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Kolkata (India) |
ISBN | : 9789384092528 |
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Author | : Parimal Ghosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Kolkata (India) |
ISBN | : 9789384092528 |
Author | : Ayan Guha |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2022-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004514562 |
The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change critically engages with the political dynamics of caste in West Bengal and explores the reasons for the relative insignificance of caste as a political category in the state.
Author | : Parimal Ghosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Kolkata (India) |
ISBN | : 9789384082994 |
What Happened to the Bhadralok suggests that the arrival of new consumers of culture, drawn from the rural middle class, and the unorganized working-class and small business people from the city further accentuated the process. Whether this has led to a proper democratization of our society, is however a different question. It argues that the bhadralok of the 1950s and 1960s had inherited a left-liberal view of politics and culture, the fruition of which was the leftist upsurge in West Bengal in the end-1960s. Its decisive defeat of the left in recent years appears to have turned the bhadralok inward and made them more pragmatic. The dream of a comprehensive transformation of society, through constitutional means or otherwise, seems to have given way to a more down-to-earth approach in both, their politics, and their everyday life. This change is evident not only in their cultural behaviour, whether it is their theatre, or passion for football, but also in the way they live their lives in their neighbourhood or para, even their choice of detective stories.
Author | : J. H. Broomfield |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
Social research and historical study of political leadership in Bengal from 1912 to 1947.
Author | : Ishita Banerjee-Dube |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351190490 |
This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional–local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and history, senses of events and persons, and productions of the past and the present, the volume unravels intimate expressions of aesthetics and scandals, heroism and martyrdom, and voice and gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between literary cultures and contending nationalisms, culture and cosmopolitanism, temporality and mythology, literature and literacy, history and modernity, and print culture and popular media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large, important region, usually studied in isolation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history, literature, politics, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
Author | : Sadan Jha |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000429423 |
This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; and the city to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of internal migration in India in historical perspectives. Departing from the dominant understanding of migration as an aberration impelled by economic factors, the book focuses on the centrality of migration in the making of society. Based on case studies from an array of geo-cultural regions from across India, the volume views migrants as active agents with their own determinations of selfhood and location. Part of the series Migrations in South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, gender studies, development studies, social work, political economy, social history, political studies, social and cultural anthropology, exclusion studies, sociology, and South Asian Studies.
Author | : Marcelo S. Isidório |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1801174504 |
Expanding this area of youth studies across specific contexts, The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity offers new interpretive possibilities to deepen the understanding of issues that concern young people.
Author | : Parimal Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9354894410 |
In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered: a woman who was branded a witch because she was listed in the census as literate; an island that vanished famously, only to resurface; a paralysed communist who dreams about the death of a river; a forest community who believe they are descendants of the Harappans; an old millworker and his wife who fight the ghosts of a dead industrial town with laughter; a fisherman uprooted by a river eleven times in twenty years; and many more. This book documents the missing narratives of these 'other' Bengalis, the largely invisible majority beyond the bhadralok that the rest of India knows. Moving between the personal and the political, and between travelogue, journal and memoir, Field Notes from a Waterborne Land takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters.
Author | : |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2023-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476651639 |
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Author | : Projit Bihari Mukharji |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2023-02-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226823008 |
A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit Bihari Mukharji illustrates how India appropriated and repurposed race science to its own ends and argues that these appropriations need to be understood within the national and regional contexts of postcolonial nation-making—not merely as footnotes to a Western history of “normal science.” The book comprises seven factual chapters operating at distinct levels—conceptual, practical, and cosmological—and eight fictive interchapters, a series of epistolary exchanges between the Bengali author Hemendrakumar Ray (1888–1963) and the protagonist of his dystopian science fiction novel about race, race science, racial improvement, and dehumanization. In this way, Mukharji fills out the historical moment in which the factual narrative unfolded, vividly revealing its moral, affective, political, and intellectual fissures.