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Essays of a lifetime : reformers - nationalists - subalterns / Sumit Sarkar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarkar, Sumit, 1939- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Hindu studies
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- History.
- Bengal (India)--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Bengal (India).
- India--Bengal.
- Nationalism--India.
- Nationalism.
- Social change--India.
- Social change.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 650 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Part 1. Bhakti and samaj: social reform and religious modernity
- Rammohun Roy and the break with the past
- The complexities of "Young Bengal"
- The pattern and structure of early nationalist activity in Bengal
- The radicalism of intellectuals: a case study of nineteenth-century Bengal
- One or many histories? Identity formations in late-colonial Bengal
- Kaliyuga, chakri, and bhakti: Ramakrishna and his times
- Vidyasagar and Brahmanical society
- The Kalki-avatar of Bikrampur: a village scandal in early-twentieth-century Bengal
- Part 2. Nationalists and subalterns
- Nationalism: ideology and mobilisation
- The conditions and nature of subaltern militancy: Bengal from Swadeshi to non-cooperation, c.1905-1922
- Primitive rebellion and modern nationalism: Forest satyagraha in the non-cooperation and disobedience movements
- The logic of Gandhian nationalism: Disobedience and the Gandhi-Irwin Pact 1930-1931
- Popular movements and national leadership 1945-1947
- The return of labour to South Asian history
- Part 3. Tributes
- Thinking about P.C. Joshi
- Edward Thompson
- In memory of Eric Hobsbawm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781438474311
- 1438474318
- OCLC:
- 1044775958
- Publisher Number:
- 99980846505
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