
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Discontents of Eclecticism: The Milieu of Akshay Kumar Dutta
- 2 The New World of Science: Akshay Kumar Dutta as the ‘Science Worker’
- 3 The Tattwabodhini Period: The Conflicting Contours of Self-Fashioning or Towards a Global History?
- 4 Reconstructing Bengali Selfhood: The Conception of Dharma in Akshay and Bankim
- 5 On the Question of the Public Sphere: Civic Life, Polity, Dissent, and an Affective Engagement with the Janasamaj
- 6 Imagining Bharatvarsha: Identity, History, Nationhood
- Conclusion and Further Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Discontents of Eclecticism: The Milieu of Akshay Kumar Dutta
- 2 The New World of Science: Akshay Kumar Dutta as the ‘Science Worker’
- 3 The Tattwabodhini Period: The Conflicting Contours of Self-Fashioning or Towards a Global History?
- 4 Reconstructing Bengali Selfhood: The Conception of Dharma in Akshay and Bankim
- 5 On the Question of the Public Sphere: Civic Life, Polity, Dissent, and an Affective Engagement with the Janasamaj
- 6 Imagining Bharatvarsha: Identity, History, Nationhood
- Conclusion and Further Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Local Selfhood, Global TurnsAkshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024