272 pages
English language
Published Dec. 23, 2005 by Oxford University Press.
The Sentinels of Culture
Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)
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This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why—from the second half of the nineteenth century—the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.
Subjects
- Bengal (India) -- Civilization -- 19th century.
- Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th century.
- Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.