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9780195673296

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195673296

  • ISBN10:

    0195673298

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-02-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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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

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