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Author Chakrabarti, Sumit, 1975- author.

Title Local selfhood, global turns : Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali intellectual history in the nineteenth century / Sumit Chakrabarti
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series South Asian intellectual history
Contents The discontents of eclecticism : the milieu of Akshay Kumar Dutta -- The new world of science : Akshay Kumar Dutta as the 'science worker' -- The Tattwabodhini period : the conflicting contours of self-fashioning or towards a global history? -- Reconstructing Bengali selfhood : the conception of Dharma in Akshay and Bankim -- On the question of the public sphere : civic life, polity, dissent, and an affective engagement with the Janasamaj -- Imagining Bharatvarsha : identity, history, nationhood -- Conclusion and further thoughts
Summary "The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism - the two most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century Bengal. While nineteenth-century Bengal has been an important discourse within South Asian history, major figures of reform such as Rammohun Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, and Keshub Chunder Sen have generally been the focus. The book attempts to rescue Dutta from the clutches of academic amnesia, and to locate him as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning among the common albeit educated public in nineteenth-century Bengal"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Datta, Akshaẏakumāra, 1820-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Datta, Akshaẏakumāra, 1820-1886. fast (OCoLC)fst00211654
Subject Bengali literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Bengali literature.
Intellectual life.
SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject India -- Bengal.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023028788
ISBN 9781009339841
1009339842