Conversion to Christianity has never easily lent itself to visions of the Indian nation. Christianity in Bengal has been habitually read as an external stimulus which fostered the Bengal Renaissance, but ironically had negligible contributions in the internal struggles of the colonial public. Reading into the silences of this assessment has been used as an incentive in this dissertation. To this end, the literary production of the Hindu upper caste converts to Christianity has served as a case in point. The complicated socio-political location of theChristian converts—ostracized socially by the Hindu majority but privileged in terms of education and class/caste—in an age of political turmoil and vigorous social reform allows a unique entr...
This dissertation covers the literature of India’s anticolonial movement of the nineteenth and early...
Any discussion of India from the point of view of the West must deal with the problem posed by the c...
Poetry and History: Bengali Maṅgal-kābya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal analyzes Bengali ma...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
This thesis probes the dynamics of modernity in the context of colonial Hinduism. It challenges prev...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Although the Republic of India was founded as a secular democracy, the country has long been plagued...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
This thesis studies the construction of a Hindu cultural identity in the late nineteenth and the ear...
The dissertation explores the problematic of idolatry in relation to literary and scholarly repres...
This thesis is intended as a study of Bengali literary writing during the period 1818 to 1831, and a...
The dissertation explores the problematic of idolatry in relation to literary and scholarly repres...
This dissertation covers the literature of India’s anticolonial movement of the nineteenth and early...
Any discussion of India from the point of view of the West must deal with the problem posed by the c...
Poetry and History: Bengali Maṅgal-kābya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal analyzes Bengali ma...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
This thesis probes the dynamics of modernity in the context of colonial Hinduism. It challenges prev...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
Although the Republic of India was founded as a secular democracy, the country has long been plagued...
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies...
This thesis studies the construction of a Hindu cultural identity in the late nineteenth and the ear...
The dissertation explores the problematic of idolatry in relation to literary and scholarly repres...
This thesis is intended as a study of Bengali literary writing during the period 1818 to 1831, and a...
The dissertation explores the problematic of idolatry in relation to literary and scholarly repres...
This dissertation covers the literature of India’s anticolonial movement of the nineteenth and early...
Any discussion of India from the point of view of the West must deal with the problem posed by the c...
Poetry and History: Bengali Maṅgal-kābya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal analyzes Bengali ma...