01179nam a2200157Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200180007610000270009424500450012126000490016630000100021552007600022565000140098565000220099920261027143632.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780198089674  223a152.4 MUK  a Mukhopadhyay,Anindita 0aBehind the Maskc/ Anindita Mukhopadhyay  aNew Delhib: Oxford University Pressc, 2012  a301p.  aIn Bengal, a shift in the mindset of the educated elite towards governance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century indicated a new certainty about their self-identity as colonised subjects. Against this background, the present work investigates the class antagonism between the bhadralok - the privileged, literate, and self-reflective social group, and the chhotolok - the underprivileged class, as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal. The book addresses a fundamental discursive discontinuity when the Bengali bhadralok sought to claim a new position of the aware and good legal subject. It also underlines the development of a new cultural language of morality and the rule of law.  aPhilosphy  aCulture of Bengal