Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905
Biographical note
Swarupa Gupta, Ph.D. (2004) in History, SOAS (University of London), is Fellow at Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. Her publications include articles in Modern Asian Studies, Studies in History and Economic and Political Weekly.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, specialists on nationalism, South Asian/Asian culture, society, colonial and postcolonial identities, ethnicity, and sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, advanced students, and informed general readers.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas and their Dissemination
2. Recreating a Jati
3. Samaj and Perspectives on Unity
4. Caste, Class and Internal ‘Others’: ‘Lower Orders’ in Bengal
5. Contiguous Ethnicities
6. Sub-Regional ‘Essences’ and the Regional Self
7. From Region to Nation: The Idea of India
Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Introduction
1. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas and their Dissemination
2. Recreating a Jati
3. Samaj and Perspectives on Unity
4. Caste, Class and Internal ‘Others’: ‘Lower Orders’ in Bengal
5. Contiguous Ethnicities
6. Sub-Regional ‘Essences’ and the Regional Self
7. From Region to Nation: The Idea of India
Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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