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(ISBN:0-19565339-7 ~ Pub Year: 2001 ~ Pages:456 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Oxford)
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In this work the author examines the period of roughly thirty years separating the Brahma Marriage Bill controversy and the launching of the anti-partition agitation. He looks into the perceptible shifts within moral and intellectual attitudes in late nineteenth-century Bengal, beginning with a judicious mixture of Western values and indigenous culture but gradually hardening into far more complacent and conservative attitudes.
The author attempts to reconstruct, with the aid of new source material, the reigning public mood of the time that effected this transition.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:
Amiya P. Sen’s detailed analysis of Hindu-culture builders … is surely among the most important contribution in the historiography of the Bengal Renaissance in at least a generation.
-David Koph, ‘American Historical Review’
Sen’s study is path breaking … it indicates a powerful subterranean current which went beyond Bankim Chandra … the study implicitly contests a Marxist and neo-Marxist view of the Bengali Renaissance
-Indian Review of Books
In terms of sheer quantity of research this book surpasses all other works on the subject.
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