Local selfhood, global turns : Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali intellectual history in the nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chakrabarti, Sumit, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:	South Asian intellectual history
Subjects:	Datta, Akshaẏakumāra, > 1820-1886 > Criticism and interpretation. Datta, Akshaẏakumāra, > 1820-1886. Bengali literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Bengal (India) > Intellectual life > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.