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Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century
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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, or 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.

Author Biography:

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a historian straddling the fields of culture studies and postcolonial studies. His areas of expertise are Nineteenth-Century Bengal, intellectual history, and postcolonial and cultural studies. His most recent monograph is titled The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude (Routledge, 2020) and the editor of the forthcoming Oxford World's Classics edition of the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore.
Release date NZ
April 30th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Pages
315
ISBN-13
9781009339827
Product ID
36566724

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