Author: Ashok MitraPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714630823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Calcutta Diary
Author: Ashok MitraPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714630823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Early Annals of the English in Bengal
Author: Charles Robert WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Arranged in Classes, Comprising All Departments of Literature, Many of Them Rare, Valuable, and Curious Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch
Author: A Catalogue of Books, Arranged in Classes
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Evils of Disunity in Civic Or County Local Administration
Author: Edwin ChadwickEngineer's Journal and Railway, Public Works, Mining Gazette, of India and the Colonies
Author: Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropolitan
Author: Sophia Anne CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Partisan Aesthetics
Author: Sanjukta SunderasonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503613003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, Sanjukta Sunderason argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but through shifting modes of political participations and dissociations. Unmooring questions of Indian modernism from its hitherto dominant harnesses to national or global affiliations, Sunderason activates, instead, distinctly locational histories that refract transnational currents. She analyzes largely unknown and dispersed archives—drawings, diaries, posters, periodicals, and pamphlets, alongside paintings and prints—and insists that art as archive is foundational to understanding modern art's socialist affiliations during India's long decolonization. By bringing together expanding fields of South Asian art, global modernisms, and Third World cultures, Partisan Aesthetics generates a new narrative that combines political history of Indian modernism, social history of postcolonial cultural criticism, and intellectual history of decolonization.
Rescued from the Nation
Author: Steven KemperPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022619910X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka’s recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose “protestant” reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and ethnic confrontation. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Steven Kemper reevaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings, ones that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation. Drawing on huge stores of source materials—nearly one hundred diaries and notebooks—Kemper reconfigures Dharmapala as a world-renouncer first and a political activist second. Following Dharmapala on his travels between East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, he traces his lifelong project of creating a unified Buddhist world, recovering the place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, and imitating the Buddha’s life course. The result is a needed corrective to Dharmapala’s embattled legacy, one that resituates Sri Lanka’s political awakening within the religious one that was Dharmapala’s life project.
Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis
Author: Kunal ChakrabartiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810880245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The Bengali (Bangla) speaking people are located in the northeastern part of South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and two states of India – West Bengal and Tripura. There are almost 246 million Bengalis at present, which makes them the fifth largest speech community in the world. Despite political and social divisions, they share a common literary and musical culture and several habits of daily existence which impart to them a distinct identity. The Bengalis are known for their political consciousness and cultural accomplishments The Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis provides an overview of the Bengalis across the world from the earliest Chalcolithic cultures to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 750 cross-referenced dictionary entries on politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, leaders of religious and secular institutions, writers, painters, actors and other cultural figures, and more generally, on the economy, education, political parties, religions, women and minorities, literature, art and architecture, music, cinema and other major sectors. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Bengalis.