The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848-85) by Tithi Bhattacharya

The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)

Tithi Bhattacharya

286 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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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...

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