Deb Dulal Halder
Biographic Data
| ID | 10129395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deb Dulal Halder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deb Dulal |
| FAMILY NAME | Halder |
| SIGNATURE | HALDER D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Questioning “Terrestrial Thinking” and Western Epistemology in Derek Walcott’s “The Sea Is History”
Blue Humanities emphasises moving away solely from ‘terrestrial thinking’, to go beyond “fixities and definites” (to use a phrase from Coleridge), asserting how the fluidity of water/seas makes one have a broader epistemological purview in understanding human cultures and endeavours. Along with other literary texts dealing with sea, Derek Walcott’s “The Sea is History” is used as an illustrative example to explore the nuances of Blue Humanities a…
Epistemic Violence of Colonialism and Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Even though colonialism is seen as the political and cultural hegemony of Western nations over the non-Western, leading to colonised suffering due to the draining of resources from the non-West to the West, the tangible manifestation of colonial violence can be seen at the epistemic level, where the hegemonic presence of Western scientific knowledge, discourse, ideology, and ways of interpreting and understanding the world is seen as the only val…
Colonial Ambivalence and Lal Behari Day’s Concern With Folk Tales
Lal Behari Day's collection of folktales from Bengal was the first printed book of folk narratives from Bengal. Its impact on later collections of Bengali folktales has been substantial. Richard Carnac Temple's suggestion to assemble such an edition occasioned the compilation of these tales. However, the distinctive ambivalences in Lal Behari's collection of tales stem from his unique identity as a native Christian preacher. The paper “Colonial A…
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Epistemic Violence of Colonialism and Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Even though colonialism is seen as the political and cultural hegemony of Western nations over the non-Western, leading to colonised suffering due to the draining of resources from the non-West to the West, the tangible manifestation of colonial violence can be seen at the epistemic level, where the hegemonic presence of Western scientific knowledge, discourse, ideology, and ways of interpreting and understanding the world is seen as the only val…
Colonial Ambivalence and Lal Behari Day’s Concern With Folk Tales
Lal Behari Day's collection of folktales from Bengal was the first printed book of folk narratives from Bengal. Its impact on later collections of Bengali folktales has been substantial. Richard Carnac Temple's suggestion to assemble such an edition occasioned the compilation of these tales. However, the distinctive ambivalences in Lal Behari's collection of tales stem from his unique identity as a native Christian preacher. The paper “Colonial A…
Questioning “Terrestrial Thinking” and Western Epistemology in Derek Walcott’s “The Sea Is History”
Blue Humanities emphasises moving away solely from ‘terrestrial thinking’, to go beyond “fixities and definites” (to use a phrase from Coleridge), asserting how the fluidity of water/seas makes one have a broader epistemological purview in understanding human cultures and endeavours. Along with other literary texts dealing with sea, Derek Walcott’s “The Sea is History” is used as an illustrative example to explore the nuances of Blue Humanities a…
Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · BENGAL (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work)