Print Modernity in Colonial Assam
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2023
154 pages
978-1-6669-0542-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b/w photos; 1 table
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-0542-7 (9781666905427)
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Raktima Bhuyan | Sanjib Pol Deka
Print Modernity in Colonial Assam
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12/2023
Lexington Books
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Persons
Raktima Bhuyan is research scholar in the Department of English at Tezpur University in Assam, India.
Sanjib Pol Deka is assistant professor in the Department of Assamese at Tezpur University in Assam, India.
Sanjib Pol Deka is assistant professor in the Department of Assamese at Tezpur University in Assam, India.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Coming of Print
Chapter 2: The Curious Case of Sutika Patal: Modernity, Translation and Women's Health
Chapter 3: Print and the Peasant: Bhimacarita, Storytelling and 19th Century Agriculture
Chapter 4: Gendered Print(?): Models of the Ideal Feminine, Modernity, and Women's Organizations
Chapter 5: Textualizing our Modernity: Print, Textbooks, and the Colonial Child
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Coming of Print
Chapter 2: The Curious Case of Sutika Patal: Modernity, Translation and Women's Health
Chapter 3: Print and the Peasant: Bhimacarita, Storytelling and 19th Century Agriculture
Chapter 4: Gendered Print(?): Models of the Ideal Feminine, Modernity, and Women's Organizations
Chapter 5: Textualizing our Modernity: Print, Textbooks, and the Colonial Child
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors
