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This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond derivative , borrowed , political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, cla

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Author

Swarupa Gupta

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789047429586

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Political Science, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25