Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Record no. 62647)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20241230121007.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781478030713 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | : International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address | : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi |
| Bill Number | : 121072 |
| Bill Date | ; 17/12/2024 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.14 BHA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bhattacharya, Tithi. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence |
| Remainder of title | : A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Tithi Bhattacharya. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | , London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Duke University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | , 2024. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 213p. |
| Dimensions | : 24cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 1645 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 homogeneous specters amenable to "scientific" speculation and invoked at séance sessions in elite drawing rooms. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century. She 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Ghost stories |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Multifarious habits |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Colonial archive |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tithi Bhattacharya |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 30/12/2024 | International Book Distributors | 1645.00 | 1 | 1 | 954.14 BHA | 30549 | 15/12/2025 | 19/11/2025 | 30/12/2024 | Books |
