Being Bengali

At Home and in the World
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-62588-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengali identity – "Bengaliness" – is complicated by its long history of evolution, the fact that Bengal is now divided between India and Bangladesh, and by virtue of a very large international diaspora from both parts of Bengal. This book explores a wide range of issues connected with Bengali identity. Amongst other subjects, it considers the special problems arising as a result of the division of Bengal, and concludes by demonstrating that there are many factors which make for the idea of a Bengali identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakraborty, Mridula Nath

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Being Bengali: At Home and in the World: Some Speculations 1. The University of Dhaka and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh 2. Does Caste Matter in Bengal? Examining the Myth of Bengali Exceptionalism 3. Producing and Re-producing the New Woman: A Note on the Prefix ‘Re’ 4. The Refugee Woman and the New Woman: (En)gendering Middle-Class Bengali Modernity and the City in Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar (The Big City 1963) 5. Re-Visioning the Subject of Intimacy: Rabindranath Tagore and Post-Colonial Habitations 6. Religion and the Demonic Form of Sacralization: The Case of Swami Vivekananda 7. In Pursuit of the ‘Authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and Observations of a Contested Diaspora 8. Being Bengali Abroad: Identity Politics among the Bengali Community in Britain 9. Eternal Bengal 10. Bengal(is) in the House: The Politics of National Culture in Pakistan, 1947-1971

Über Autor(innen)

Mridula Nath Chakraborty is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Writing and Society Research Centre at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the University of Western Sydney, Australia.