Local Selfhood, Global Turns : Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century (South Asian Intellectual History)

Chakrabarti, Sumit

Cambridge University Press（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009339827
• DDC分類 891.4434

Full Description

The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism - the two most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century Bengal. While nineteenth-century Bengal has been an important discourse within South Asian history, major figures of reform such as Rammohun Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, or Keshub Chunder Sen have generally been the focus. The book attempts to rescue Dutta from the clutches of academic amnesia, and to locate him as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning among the common albeit educated public in nineteenth-century Bengal.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The Discontents of Eclecticism: The Milieu of Akshay Kumar Dutta; 2. The New World of Science: Akshay 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; Index.