Bengal in global concept history : culturalism in the age of capital /
In this study, Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in 19th- and 20th-century Bengal to show how the concept of 'culture' can take on a life of its own in different contexts, weaving the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Bengali "Culture" as a Historical Problem; Chapter Two. Culture as a Global Concept; Chapter Three. Bengali Liberalism and British Empire; Chapter Four. Hinduism as Culture; Chapter Five. The Conceptual Structure of an Indigenist Nationalism; Chapter Six. Reification, Rarification, and Radicalization; Conclusion. Universalistic Particularisms and Parochial Cosmopolitanisms; Notes; Index.
