The sentinels of culture : class, education, and the colonial intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)

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    • Bhattacharya, Tithi

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The sentinels of culture : class, education, and the colonial intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)

Tithi Bhattacharya

Oxford University Press, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-258) and index

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This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why--from the second half of the nineteenth century--the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.

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