The Sentinels of Culture

Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)

• Author(s): Tithi Bhattacharya,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 019566910X
  ISBN_13: 9780195669107
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Asia / South / General , History / World , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

Description:... This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why--from the second half of the nineteenth century--the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.