Tithi Bhattacharya, "The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 019566910X | PDF | pages: 290 | 52.1 mb
This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why-from the second half of the nineteenth century-the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.