Colonialism and cultural identity : the making of a Hindu discourse, Bengal 1867-1905

This thesis studies the construction of a Hindu cultural identity in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Bengal. The aim is to examine how this identity was formed by rationalising and valorising an available repertoire of images and myths in the face of official and missionary...

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Main Author: Chowdhury Sengupta, Indira
Published: SOAS, University of London 1993
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758604