TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Mukhopadhyay,Anindita
TI  - Behind the Mask
SN  - 9780198089674
U1  - 152.4 MUK 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - Philosphy
KW  - Culture of Bengal
N2  - 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
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