Local selfhood, global turns : Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali intellectual history in the nineteenth century / Sumit Chakrabarti.
"The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism - the two most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century Bengal. While nineteenth-century Bengal has be...
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| Other title: | Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali intellectual history in the nineteenth century |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | South Asian intellectual history
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| Summary: | "The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism - the two most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century Bengal. While nineteenth-century Bengal has been an important discourse within South Asian history, major figures of reform such as Rammohun Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, and Keshub Chunder Sen have generally been the focus. The book attempts to rescue Dutta from the clutches of academic amnesia, and to locate him as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning among the common albeit educated public in nineteenth-century Bengal"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 258 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009339841 1009339842 9781009383936 1009383930 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009339841 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2024). |