Spatial imagination in colonial Bengal.
This essay traces a changing geo-politics brought about by the forces of Western colonisation. It maps the intellectual pathways two Bengalis – Raja Rammohun Roy and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar – chalked out in their negotiations with real and mythical spaces of the East and the West. The fashioning of...
| Publicado en: | South Asian History & Culture Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 485 - 504 |
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Oct2023
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