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Author Sengoopta, Chandak, author

Title The rays before Satyajit : creativity and modernity in colonial India / Chandak Sengoopta
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Contents From the old world to the new : a family in transition -- New faith, new woman, new society -- Empire, nation, women -- The polymathic artisan -- Home and the world : Swadeshi and its ambiguities -- Triumph and tragedy
Summary Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. A study of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and itscollateral branches, This book interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 19, 2016)
Subject Ray family.
SUBJECT Ray family fast
Subject Intellectual life
SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life
Bengal (India) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003385
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
India -- Bengal
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199087198
0199087199