Chatterjee, Pranab <br/><br/>
A story of ambivalent modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal: the rise and fall of Bengali elitism in South Asia / 
Pranab Chatterjee 
 - New York:  Peter Lang,  c2010. 
 - xvi, 294 p.: ill.;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : the ambivalent modernization of Bengali culture --   Pre-modern Bengal from antiquity to 1204 : centuries of Sanskritization; a culture built on fault-lines across caste divisions --   Pre-modern Bengal between 1204 and 1757 : five plus centuries of Islamization; addition of more fault-lines across religious divisions --   Ambivalent modernization, 1757-1947 : almost two centuries of Anglicization - conflicts in knowledge, identity, and loyalty - addition of more fault-lines --   Bangladesh and West Bengal since 1947 : ambivalent modernization continues; conflicts between Islamization, Bengali nationalism, Marxism, and peasant democracy; chronologies and quantitative trends --   Bangladesh and West Bengal since 1947, part 2 : ambivalent modernization continues; conflicts between Islamization, Bengali nationalism, Marxism, and peasant democracy; some qualitative trends; summary and conclusions --   Intellectual traditions in ethnographic studies.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  App. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781433108204 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1433108208 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Elite (Social Sciences)--Bangladesh<br/>Elite (Social Sciences)--India--West Bengal<br/>Bengali (South Asian People)--Social Conditions
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Bangladesh--Civilization<br/>West Bengal (India)--Civilization
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.14  / CHA/S