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Title

Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities : essays on India's colonial and post-colonial experiences / Tapan Raychaudhuri.

Author

Raychaudhuri, Tapan

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

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Description

xii, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities Tapan Raychaudhuri delves into the mental world of the colonial middle class in India. He reassesses British rule and dwells on the implications of communal chauvinism in contemporary South Asia." "Students of Indian history, as well as those interested in the Raj, colonialism and contemporary politics, will all find this volume, by one of contemporary India's major historians, an absorbing work."--Jacket.

Subject

• India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
• India > History > 1947-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Transformation of Indian sensibilites : the West as catalyst -- Europe in India's xenology : the nineteenth-century record -- The pursuit of reason in nineteenth-century Bengal -- Love in a colonial climate : marriage, sex and romance in nineteenth-century Bengal -- Transformation of religious sensibilities in nineteenth-century Bengal -- Swami Vivekananda's construction of Hinduism -- Muslims and Islam in Swamiji's vision of India : a note -- Had he been alive today -- Gandhi and Tagore : where the twain met -- British rule in India : an assessment -- Historiography of India, 1858-1937 -- Re-reading Divide and quit -- Shadows of the swastika : historical perspectives on the politics of Hindu communalism -- Indo-Pakistan relations : in quest of a silver lining, even a smudged one.

ISBN

0195648633

LCCN

^^^99939182^

OCLC

41420778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library