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Can I read Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal on EtoBox?
Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal by Anindita Mukhopadhyay is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal about?
ABSTRACTThis essay traces a changing geo-politics brought about by the forces of Western colonisation. It maps the intellectual pathways two Bengalis – Raja Rammohun Roy and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar – chalked out in their negotiations with real and mythical spaces of the East and the West. The fashioning of their own self-identities then becomes a part of this process. The evolution of Roy’s analytical frame, and Vidyasagar’s literary frame for examining and romancing the West is laid out, after the historical context is explained. Roy’s reflexive engagement with the Occident was to travel and see for himself this land of fantasy (which remained an elite practice and which Roy sets in motion). Ishwarchandra’s literary frame of translation formed a deep pool of imagination within indigenous minds – an internalised geographical space which did not need a validity check – therefore representing a deeper colonial penetration of the Bengali/Indian imagination
Who reads Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anindita Mukhopadhyay
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Indian History, Humanities