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Memoirs of Roads
Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization
Inbunden, 2016
418 kr
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In seventeenth-century India, the fates of three little hamlets were forever changed when East India Company officials chose them to be developed into a city suitable for their settlement. Thus was born Calcutta. In Memoirs of Roads, Banerjee journeys through time and narrates the story of three of …
Logic in a Popular Form
Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Taking its title from Karl Marx’s description of religion as the world’s “logic in a popular form,” this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the construction of Bengali myths and beliefs about …
Parlour and the Street
Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
Häftad, 2019
298 kr
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In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta’s urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring villages, Calcutta’s working-class forged a new urban …
Dangerous Outcast
The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Häftad, 2019
298 kr
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Dangerous Outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee also makes impressive use of both standard archival …
