Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905
By Anindita Ghosh.
Description
By exploring a narrative of dissent, struggle, and conflict among various contending speech communities, this book reexamines some fundamental debates in the cultural experience of the educated middle classes in nineteenth-century colonial Bengal. More specifically, it studies power and representation in colonial Bengal through the print-language and literature and its impact on the resultant identity formations. In the nineteenth century, language and its written literature was more than anything else object of immense debate, scrutiny, and surveillance among the Bengalis and the colonial ...
ISBN(s)
0195673298, 9780195673296
