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Print Modernity in Colonial Assam
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2023
Summary
Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals and magazines of the time. Raktima Bhuyan and Sanjib Pol Deka argue for alternative literary trends and reading public in colonial Assam. The standardization of the Assamese language, along with the rise of the middle-class, engendered 'purity' of the language and experimentation with western mediums like the novel. This book places 'pre-modern verse' as an alternative literary practice equally embraced by the reading public during this period. At the threshold of Indian independence, issues like education as a blessing of colonial modernity needs to be subjected to discourses of morality and gender bias (and an attempt to prevent this) in the writings of the period, such as speeches, essays, and textbooks.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0541-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0542-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
146
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1: The Coming of Print No access Pages 11 - 38
Chapter 2: The Curious Case of Sutika Patal: Modernity, Translation, and Women’s Health No access Pages 39 - 54
Chapter 3: Print and the Peasant: Bhimacarita, Storytelling, and Nineteenth-Century Agriculture No access Pages 55 - 80
Chapter 4: Gendered Print(?): Models of the Ideal Feminine, Modernity, and Women’s Organizations No access Pages 81 - 106
Chapter 5: Textualizing Our Modernity: Print, Textbooks, and the Colonial Child No access Pages 107 - 132
