01228nam a2200181Ia 4500 20261027143632.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780198089674 23 152.4 MUK Mukhopadhyay,Anindita Behind the Mask / Anindita Mukhopadhyay New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2012 301p. In 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. Philosphy Culture of Bengal RBK 69026 69026 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 152.4 MUK G8353 2026-06-08 15:45:16 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection