Power in Print Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905

by Ghosh, Anindita

• ISBN13: 9780195673296
• ISBN10: 0195673298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• More Book Details
• Purchase Benefits

Summary

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 sp

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(28)
1 Social Profile of a Language	29	(37)
2 Literature, Language, and Reform	66	(41)
3 The Battala Book Market	107	(45)
4 Contesting Print Audiences	152	(37)
5 Satire and Social Discord	189	(36)
6 Women Refusing Conformity	225	(34)
7 Bengali and its 'Muslim Other'	259	(36)
Conclusion	295	(13)
Bibliography	308	(31)
Index	339