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For a few glorious decades in the nineteenth century, Bengal would witness a revolution like it never had before, and never would since. It was a revolution of the mind and of a handful of men and women, but it would change the fabric of Indian society irrevocably. It began with a band of Englishmen, led by the brilliant Orientologist, William Jones. Then there was the enigmatic Rammohun Roy who invented a reformed Hinduism called the Brahmo Samaj; and his close ...
Scholars have long debated the very idea of a ‘Bengal Renaissance’. The controversies have been largely over whether there was a ‘renaissance’ at all, and its significance from social, political, and cultural perspectives. This book addresses the issue from the perspective of philosophy of science and the psychology of creativity. Dasgupta shows that the Bengal Renaissance is characterized by a ‘collective cognitive identity’ which had its roots in ...