Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Nationalist Ideologues, Ideas and their Dissemination; Chapter Two. Recreating a Jati; ChapterThree. Samaj and Perspectives on Unity; Chapter Four. Caste, Class and Internal 'Others': 'Lower Orders' in Bengal; Chapter Five. Contiguous Ethnicities; Chapter Six. Sub-Regional 'Essences' and the Regional Self; Chapter Seven. FromRegion to Nation:The Idea of India; Conclusion; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Summary
Intends to open fresh ways of rethinking colonial nationalisms, qualifying derivative, political and modernist paradigms. Introducing the category of samaj (cultural entity), this book shows how indigenous socio-cultural origins were reconfigured in modern Bengali-Indian nationhood to conceptualise unities and mediate fragmentation
Analysis
Geschichte
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-377) and index
