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020			_a9780198089674
082			_223 _a152.4 MUK
100			_a Mukhopadhyay,Anindita
245		0	_aBehind the Mask _c/ Anindita Mukhopadhyay
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2012
300			_a301p.
520			_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.
650			_aPhilosphy
650			_aCulture of Bengal
942			_cRBK
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