Author: Ramatosh Sarkar
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788172015565
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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On the life and works of Rāmendrasundara Tribedī, 1864-1919, Bengali author.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: University of Calcutta
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Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Author: Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788170234418
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Asok K. Bhattacharya
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126008483
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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On the life and works of Rakhal Das Banerji, Bengali writer and archaeologist.

Author: Shreya Roy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837651434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: J. Lourdusamy
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125026747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. His analysis of the careers of two scientists, J. C. Bose and P. C. Ray, and two institution builders, Mahendralal Sircar and Asutosh Mookerjee, brings to light the issues related to science at a time of colonialism and nationalism. Scientists often had to depend on British institutions for legitimation and funding, while also supporting the nationalist cause for greater autonomy. One of the central claims of this book is that the protagonists aimed to contribute to a modern world science, one based on a strong sense of universalism. They did not aim to construct any alternative sciences, though they did express and apply their work by drawing on their cultural heritage. This makes Science and National Consciousness a work of particular relevance today, when a homogenous, instrumentalist and totally Western conception of science is being globally accepted.

Author: Simonti Sen
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125027386
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power - it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to produce such texts. An analysis of these works from a historian's angle provides crucial windows to the colonised mind striving for self-definition. Trailokyanath Mukherjee, Romesh Chandra Dutt, Krishnabhabini Das, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and other travellers aimed to demystify the myth of Europe by establishing physical contact. Their depictions of the reality of the colonial metropolis served as acts of self-assertion, dislocating England from its position of centrality. Simonti Sen studies in detail the conflicted narratives of minds that aimed to reconcile a Western education with an incipient sense of national self. In doing so, she raises issues regarding national definition which are as relevant today as they were a century ago. This work would appeal to readers interested in the history of India and, in particular, of Bengal; it would also appeal to those involved in literature and cultural studies.

Author: Sumit Chakrabarti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009339826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Locates Akshay Kumar Datta as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning in nineteenth-century Bengal.