Of Matters Modern: The Experience of Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
Of matters Modern analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asias experience of modernity has to be understood in a global context, the book explores a wide range of topics: the emergence of 'Assam Fever' in colonial discourse; an experiment with fusion music in early colonial India; The emergence of detective fiction in colonial Punjab; the search for authenticity among nationalist and post-colonial thinkers; the critique of the Bhadralok by a Bhadralok writer; the experience of modernity in Kolkata during early twentieth century; the emergence of a cosmopolitan 'underworld' in Kolkata during the nineteenth centu…
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- ISBN: 978-1-905422-61-6
- EAN: 9781905422616
- Produktnummer: 3040432
- Verlag: Sea Boating
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 374 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.6 cm 771 g
- Gewicht: 771
Über den Autor
Debraj Bhattacharya is an independent researcher based in Kolkata and has published on the 'underworld' of Calcutta during the early Twentieth Century.
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