TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chatterjee,Pranab
TI  - A story of ambivalent modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal: the rise and fall of Bengali elitism in South Asia
SN  - 9781433108204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 954.14 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Elite (Social Sciences)
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - India
KW  - West Bengal
KW  - Bengali (South Asian People)
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - Civilization
KW  - West Bengal (India)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Introduction : the ambivalent modernization of Bengali culture --; Ch. 2; Pre-modern Bengal from antiquity to 1204 : centuries of Sanskritization; a culture built on fault-lines across caste divisions --; Ch. 3; Pre-modern Bengal between 1204 and 1757 : five plus centuries of Islamization; addition of more fault-lines across religious divisions --; Ch. 4; Ambivalent modernization, 1757-1947 : almost two centuries of Anglicization - conflicts in knowledge, identity, and loyalty - addition of more fault-lines --; Ch. 5; Bangladesh and West Bengal since 1947 : ambivalent modernization continues; conflicts between Islamization, Bengali nationalism, Marxism, and peasant democracy; chronologies and quantitative trends --; Ch. 6; 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 --; App; Intellectual traditions in ethnographic studies
ER  -