Notions of Nationhood in Bengal by Swarupa Gupta
This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond 'derivative', 'borrowed', political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities.
Swarupa Gupta, Ph.D. (2004) in History, SOAS (University of London), is Fellow at Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. Her publications include articles in Modern Asian Studies, Studies in History and Economic and Political Weekly.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789360800574 |
| ISBN 10 | 9360800570 |
| Title | Notions of Nationhood in Bengal |
| Author | Swarupa Gupta |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manohar Publishers and Distributors |
| Year published | 2025-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 418 |
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