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028			_a;Variety Books Publishers & Distributors _b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 _c:IM2894 _d:25/11/2021
082			_a891.4 BHA
100			_aBhattacharya, Baidik
245			_aNovel formations _b : the Indian beginnings of a European genre _c/ Baidik Bhattacharya & Sambudha Sen
260			_aRanikhet _b:Distributed by Orient BlackSwan Private Ltd. _c2019
300			_aviii, 260 pages ; _c 23 cm
365			_b795
520			_a"This book is concerned with novels, and specifically with the many ways in which the early novel in India negotiated its inescapable relationship with colonial modernity... we follow Bankim in probing the novel's role in one of colonialism's central cultural transactions: to promote the modern English-educated woman who will make an intelligent, capable, and companionable wife... other writers discussed found it impossible to dissociate the modernity of the novel form from modern ideas about how a husband should relate to his wife, as well as from the more public authenticating discourses of post-Enlightenment Europe... the anxiety to be modern demonstrated a familiarity with modernity's knowledge-producing protocols and it often ended up cramping rather than facilitating the free development of the early Indian novel." --cover page 4.
650			_aLiteratures
650			_aEast Indo-European and Celtic literatures
650			_aIndic fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
650			_aIndic literature -- 19th century -- European influences.
650			_aIndic fiction -- European influences -- 19th century.
650			_aIndic fiction.
700			_aBhattacharya, Baidik
700			_aSen, Sambudha
942			_cBOOK