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Of matters modern : the experience of modernity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia

Title
Of matters modern : the experience of modernity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia / edited by Debraj Bhattacharya.
Publication
London ; New York : Seagull, 2008, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
Bhattacharya, Debraj.
Description
xi, 374 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"A collection of essays that probe the experience of modernity in South Asia through narratives of specific issues and/or contexts, pushing the argument that South Asia's experience of modernity has to be understood in connection with a global experience and not in isolation. The essays also critically engage with various concepts that inform debates on modernity."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1780-2000
  • Literature and society > South Asia > History
  • Colonial influence
  • Literature and society
  • Manners and customs
  • Social conditions
  • Moderne
  • South Asia > Social conditions
  • South Asia > Colonial influence
  • South Asia > History
  • South Asia > Social life and customs
  • South Asia
  • Südasien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Six notes on a partly understood phenomenon / Debraj Bhattacharya -- Who sang the hybrid muse? : 'Fusion' music in late-eighteenth-century India / Sharmadip Basu -- The Assam fever : identities of a disease and diseases of an identity / Bodhisattva Kar -- Sahib outlaws in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73) : a Bengali poet with Italian connections / William Radice -- The politics of reformist Islam in India : the ambiguous legacy of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan / Kingshuk Chatterjee -- Zalim Daku and the Mystery of the Rubber sea monster : Urdu detective fiction in 1930's Punjab and the experience of colonial modernity / Markus Daechsel -- Three narratives on modernity in a colonial metropolis : Calcutta during the early twentieth century / Debraj Bhattacharya -- Critique of the Bhadralok and the Bhadralok critic / Parimal Ghosh -- Supermother for a nation : reading Gandhari / Aryak Guha -- Residual nationalism and the Indian (radical?) intellectual : on indigenism, authenticity and the colonizer's presents / Benjamin Zachariah.
ISBN
  • 9781905422616
  • 190542261X
  • 1905422628
  • 9781905422623
LCCN
2009275128
OCLC
  • ocn260210238
  • 260210238
  • SCSB-14400885
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library