Prathama Benerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 10752653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prathama Benerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prathama |
| FAMILY NAME | Benerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BENERJEE P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conclusion
This chapter tries to clarify the unfinished nature of both the work of colonial modernity and its critique. As the nation seeks to ‘liberalize’ its economy and mirror the trajectory of global capital, it claims the purity and righteousness of cultural conservatism. It is noted that by the 1930s, the colonized, by way of reclaiming ‘modern’ knowledge-disciplines from the colonizer, hinted at his/her own marginality and lateness in the present. Th…
Debt, Time, and Extravagance
This chapter illustrates how Santals and Paharias were physically and territorially fenced in by the colonial rulers, so that they could no longer interact directly with the rest of the indigenous society. It also investigates the emergence of indebtedness as the definitional sign of the ‘primitive’ in colonial Bengal. The colonial authorities argued that Paharias did not exhibit the intrinsic ‘primordiality’ of the Santals. Santals qualified to …
Time, Space, and the ‘Primitive Within’
This chapter covers the relationship between the project of imagining the nation as continuous history and the experiences of the discontinuous, anomic everyday of late nineteenth-century Bengal. Bengali history-writing came to be forged in the nineteenth century through inversion as the primary mode of opposition to colonialism. In nineteenth-century Bengali imagination, the ‘primitive within’ became the clue that could account for the defeat an…
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Conclusion
This chapter tries to clarify the unfinished nature of both the work of colonial modernity and its critique. As the nation seeks to ‘liberalize’ its economy and mirror the trajectory of global capital, it claims the purity and righteousness of cultural conservatism. It is noted that by the 1930s, the colonized, by way of reclaiming ‘modern’ knowledge-disciplines from the colonizer, hinted at his/her own marginality and lateness in the present. Th…
Debt, Time, and Extravagance
This chapter illustrates how Santals and Paharias were physically and territorially fenced in by the colonial rulers, so that they could no longer interact directly with the rest of the indigenous society. It also investigates the emergence of indebtedness as the definitional sign of the ‘primitive’ in colonial Bengal. The colonial authorities argued that Paharias did not exhibit the intrinsic ‘primordiality’ of the Santals. Santals qualified to …
Time, Space, and the ‘Primitive Within’
This chapter covers the relationship between the project of imagining the nation as continuous history and the experiences of the discontinuous, anomic everyday of late nineteenth-century Bengal. Bengali history-writing came to be forged in the nineteenth century through inversion as the primary mode of opposition to colonialism. In nineteenth-century Bengali imagination, the ‘primitive within’ became the clue that could account for the defeat an…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · BENGAL (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 work) · Debt (1 work) · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies (1 work) · Economics (1 work)