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The nineteenth century in Bengal has been identified and then reviled as a period of renaissance or false renaissance. This study moves beyond those sterile parameters to provide a new understanding of the interactive, living, and cataclysmic nature of events. Analysing certain cultural turning points in the history of Bengali literature, it investigates the place of the aesthetic, the political, and the collective in the composition of a literary culture to show ...
Extensive historical research and a detailed examination of the English poetry written by Indians in the nineteenth century in its social, historical and political contexts, reveals the engagement of the colonized with one of the implements of colonization, the English language. This study shows how the Intertextuality that existed between this body of verse and concurrent orientalist scholarship on the ancient Indian heritage resulted, ultimately, in a complex ...
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), poet, thinker, radical, and one of the earliest Indian educationists to disseminate Western learning and philosophy among the young men of Bengal, was also, crucially, the first modern Indian to write of the incumbent nation extensively in English. Derozio, Poet of India brings together all of Derozio's poems, along with their notes, as well as available prose, correspondence, and journalism. This definitive edition comprises ...