Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Bhattacharya, Tithi
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Bhattacharya, Tithi

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played...
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Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
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Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Bhattacharya, Tithi

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

$496.22
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Bhattacharya, Tithi

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

$496.22
Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal's traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. For Bhattacharya, British colonization marked a transition from the older, multifaith folk world of traditional ghosts to newer and more frightening specters. These "modern" Bengali ghosts, borne out of a new rationality, were homogeneous specters amenable to "scientific" speculation and invoked at s?ance sessions in elite drawing rooms. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century. She argues that these shifts cemented the authority of a rising upper-caste colonial elite who expelled the older ghosts in order to recast Hinduism as the conscience of the Indian nation. In so doing, Bhattacharya reveals how capitalism necessarily reshaped Bengal as part of the global colonial project.

Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/23/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781478030713

About the Author
Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal, 1848-1885, and coauthor of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto.
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