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Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal / Partha Chatterjee, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bengal (India)--History.
- Bengal (India).
- Bengal (India)--Intellectual life.
- Bangladesh--Intellectual life.
- Bangladesh.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors consider what the case of Bengal says about the workings of Western modernity in a colonial setting.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8686-6
- OCLC:
- 476093992
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