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UNINA9910814290203321 |
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Titolo |
Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal / / Partha Chatterjee, editor |
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Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bengal (India) History |
Bengal (India) Intellectual life |
Bangladesh Intellectual life |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Published in conjunction with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The contributors consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting. |
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