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ISBN13: | 9781478026464 |
ISBN10: | 1478026464 |
Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
Terjedelem: | 232 oldal |
Méret: | 229x152 mm |
Súly: | 572 g |
Nyelv: | angol |
Illusztrációk: | 6 illustrations |
700 |
Témakör:
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Kiadó: Duke University Press Books
Megjelenés dátuma: 2024. augusztus 23.
Kötetek száma: Cloth over boards
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Rövid leírás:
Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in a dialogue with European science.
Hosszú leírás:
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. For Bhattacharya, British colonization marked a transition from the older, multifaith folk world of traditional ghosts to newer and more frightening specters. These "modern" Bengali ghosts, borne out of a new Rationality, were homogenous specters amenable to "scientific" speculation and invoked at séance sessions in elite drawing rooms. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, she uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century. Bhattacharya argues that these shifts cemented the authority of a rising upper caste colonial elite who expelled the older ghosts in order to recast Hinduism as the conscience of the Indian nation. In so doing, Bhattacharya reveals how capitalism necessarily reshaped Bengal as part of the global colonial project.
“The best account I have yet read of the enchanted and uncanny world of stories and beliefs that Bengalis like myself grew up in.”
Tartalomjegyzék:
A Note on Conventions vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Uncanny Histories: Ghosts, Fear, and Reason in Colonial Bengal 1
1. “Undisciplined, Playful and Yet Bhadra”: Old Ghosts and Their Advocates in an Age of Enlightenment 22
2. The New Spirits 55
3. Deadly Spaces: Haunted Homes and Haunting Histories 82
4. Enacting Ghosts: New Spirits, New Rituals 97
5. National Ghosts, Ghostly Nations 130
Conclusion. Thinking about Ends and Beginnings 155
Notes 159
Bibliography 187
Index 203
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Uncanny Histories: Ghosts, Fear, and Reason in Colonial Bengal 1
1. “Undisciplined, Playful and Yet Bhadra”: Old Ghosts and Their Advocates in an Age of Enlightenment 22
2. The New Spirits 55
3. Deadly Spaces: Haunted Homes and Haunting Histories 82
4. Enacting Ghosts: New Spirits, New Rituals 97
5. National Ghosts, Ghostly Nations 130
Conclusion. Thinking about Ends and Beginnings 155
Notes 159
Bibliography 187
Index 203