The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay And The Formation Of Nationalist Discourse In India by Sudipta Kaviraj
The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay And The Formation Of Nationalist Discourse In India

Sudipta Kaviraj

The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay And The Formation Of Nationalist Discourse In India

Sudipta Kaviraj

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nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be s...

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