The Rays before Satyajit : creativity and modernity in colonial India / Chandak Sengoopta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sengoopta, Chandak, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ray Choudhury, Upendra Kishore, 1863-1915--Family.

Rāẏa, Sukumāra, 1887-1923.

Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992--Family.

Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992.

Ray Choudhury, Upendra Kishore, 1863-1915.

Children's literature, Bengali--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Bengali.

Families.

Bengal (India)--History--19th century.

Bengal (India)--History--20th century.

Bengal (India)--Biography.

Bengal (India)--Intellectual life.

India--Bengal.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 418 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, children's literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. The first comprehensive work in English on the pre-Satyajit generations, The Rays before Satyajit is not only a collective biography of an extraordinary family, but interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity.

Contents:

1 From the Old World to the New: A Family in Transition 39

2 New Faith, New Woman, New Society 82

3 Empire, Nation, Women 145

4 The Polymathic Artisan 198

5 Home and the World: Swadeshi and Its Ambiguities 251

6 Triumph and Tragedy 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199464753

0199464758

OCLC:

950890277