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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814290203321

Titolo

Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal / / Partha Chatterjee, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8686-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChatterjeePartha <1947->

Disciplina

954

954.1403

Soggetti

Bengal (India) History

Bengal (India) Intellectual life

Bangladesh Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in conjunction with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; 1 The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal; 2 Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature; 3 Recovering the Nation's Art; 4 A Modern Science of Politics for the Colonized; 5 Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family; 6 A City Away from Home: The Mapping of Calcutta; 7 Territory and People: The Disciplining of Historical Memory; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The contributors consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.