TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen, Amiya P. 
TI  - Explorations in Modern Bengal C.1800-1900 :  essays on religion, history and culture
SN  - 9789384082345
U1  - 954.1403 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Ratna Sagar
KW  - Bengal - India
N1  - Reprint edition; Bib and Ref
N2  - 267About the Book Historically, nineteenth-century Bengal was the where the first crop of a Western-educated Hindu intelligentsia creatively and actively engaged in a two-pronged intellectual enterprise. On the one hand, there was deep introspection that encouraged the overturning of traditional categories of thought and ways of life, and on the other,a growing cultural pride that preferred suitably defending these even under perceptibly changed intellectual and material conditions. Many claimed that while the preceding centuries of Indo-muslim rule had made no difference to the Hindu mind, the Christian West had critically challenged it in intellectual and moral ways. In the course of time, this was also intimately tied to the growing desire to confront colonial modernity on ones own terms
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