Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bhaskar |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHOPADHYAY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jadavpur University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Taking Callon to Calcutta
Using archival evidence, this paper tries to use Callon's idea of ‘embeddedness of the economy in economics’ in order to understand the process of economization of India under the East India Company. The Company's state self-consciously tried to construct an economic terrain by using their coercive power, but the rise of the market did not lead to the proliferation of ‘calculative agencies’. The paper seeks to explore the reasons behind this by d…
Dream Kitsch - Folk Art, Indigenous Media and `9/11
This article explores the process of transmission of the image(s) of 9/11 through an ethnographic/art-historical examination of Bengali (Indian) pat (traditional scroll painting) made by a community of rural Indian artisans with little or no exposure to mass-media. It transpires that while the impact of mass-media - often held responsible for the extinction of `authentic' folk art - has been somewhat exaggerated, the argument put forward here is …
Cultural Studies and Politics in India Today
Cultural Studies needs to be reinvented for India - a polity where the larger part of the population are disenfranchised non-citizens. The terrain of 'culture' here being differently constituted, manners could serve as a useful category for theorizing this difference. Included in 'manners' are a different historical formation of subjectivity as well as another ontology of representation. Further, Cultural Studies, so conceived, could productively…
Crossing the Howrah Bridge
This photo-essay analyzes the politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of 'outcast' Calcutta - the city that is the nightmare of urban planners and whose squalor, filth and poverty are taken to be indexes of the failure of the postcolonial urbanism as such. The city that turned itself into a barricade during the street-fighting years of the 1960s is now about to turn its back on its own subalterns (migrants from poorer areas), participating in urb…
The Rumor of Globalization
Between Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque
Deriving from the recent discussions on paideia (spiritual exercise), which links knowledge with mores and manners, this article argues that the expurgation of certain extreme tastes from the genteel Bengali palate, in the course of ‘nationalist’ reform in the 19th century, demonstrates the operation of a certain ‘civilizing process’ coterminous with the wider process of westernization. Positing a homology between this and the suppression of the …
Writing Home, Writing Travel
Like all great cities, Calcutta has its share of catty rumors, many of which are about Calcuttans themselves. One of these runs as follows: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), the noted Bengali Anglophile and man of letters, visited England for the first time sometime in the late 1950s. Out on the streets of London, Niradbabu started navigating his cab like a veteran Londoner. What the driver found incongruous was the fact that Niradbabu mentioned so…
Home and the World, voyage, traduction et domicile dans la modernité bengalie
Home and the World: Travel, Translation and the Home in Bengali Modernity Placing ourselves at the vanishing point of market "globalisation", this article is aimed at analysing how "modernity" came to the Indian people, particularly Bengalis, based on a reading of travelogues ranging over two and a half centuries, from the late 18th century to the early 19lh century. The successive generations of travellers that formed as such ; in relation to th…
Orientalism, Genealogy and the Writing of History
Crossing the Howrah Bridge
This photo-essay analyzes the politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of 'outcast' Calcutta - the city that is the nightmare of urban planners and whose squalor, filth and poverty are taken to be indexes of the failure of the postcolonial urbanism as such. The city that turned itself into a barricade during the street-fighting years of the 1960s is now about to turn its back on its own subalterns (migrants from poorer areas), participating in urb…
Between Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque
Deriving from the recent discussions on paideia (spiritual exercise), which links knowledge with mores and manners, this article argues that the expurgation of certain extreme tastes from the genteel Bengali palate, in the course of ‘nationalist’ reform in the 19th century, demonstrates the operation of a certain ‘civilizing process’ coterminous with the wider process of westernization. Positing a homology between this and the suppression of the …
Writing Home, Writing Travel
Like all great cities, Calcutta has its share of catty rumors, many of which are about Calcuttans themselves. One of these runs as follows: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), the noted Bengali Anglophile and man of letters, visited England for the first time sometime in the late 1950s. Out on the streets of London, Niradbabu started navigating his cab like a veteran Londoner. What the driver found incongruous was the fact that Niradbabu mentioned so…
Cultural Studies and Politics in India Today
Cultural Studies needs to be reinvented for India - a polity where the larger part of the population are disenfranchised non-citizens. The terrain of 'culture' here being differently constituted, manners could serve as a useful category for theorizing this difference. Included in 'manners' are a different historical formation of subjectivity as well as another ontology of representation. Further, Cultural Studies, so conceived, could productively…
Taking Callon to Calcutta
Using archival evidence, this paper tries to use Callon's idea of ‘embeddedness of the economy in economics’ in order to understand the process of economization of India under the East India Company. The Company's state self-consciously tried to construct an economic terrain by using their coercive power, but the rise of the market did not lead to the proliferation of ‘calculative agencies’. The paper seeks to explore the reasons behind this by d…
Dream Kitsch - Folk Art, Indigenous Media and `9/11
This article explores the process of transmission of the image(s) of 9/11 through an ethnographic/art-historical examination of Bengali (Indian) pat (traditional scroll painting) made by a community of rural Indian artisans with little or no exposure to mass-media. It transpires that while the impact of mass-media - often held responsible for the extinction of `authentic' folk art - has been somewhat exaggerated, the argument put forward here is …
Orientalism, Genealogy and the Writing of History
Orientalism, Genealogy and the Writing of History
Home and the World, voyage, traduction et domicile dans la modernité bengalie
Home and the World: Travel, Translation and the Home in Bengali Modernity Placing ourselves at the vanishing point of market "globalisation", this article is aimed at analysing how "modernity" came to the Indian people, particularly Bengalis, based on a reading of travelogues ranging over two and a half centuries, from the late 18th century to the early 19lh century. The successive generations of travellers that formed as such ; in relation to th…
Writing Home, Writing Travel
Like all great cities, Calcutta has its share of catty rumors, many of which are about Calcuttans themselves. One of these runs as follows: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), the noted Bengali Anglophile and man of letters, visited England for the first time sometime in the late 1950s. Out on the streets of London, Niradbabu started navigating his cab like a veteran Londoner. What the driver found incongruous was the fact that Niradbabu mentioned so…
Between Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque
Deriving from the recent discussions on paideia (spiritual exercise), which links knowledge with mores and manners, this article argues that the expurgation of certain extreme tastes from the genteel Bengali palate, in the course of ‘nationalist’ reform in the 19th century, demonstrates the operation of a certain ‘civilizing process’ coterminous with the wider process of westernization. Positing a homology between this and the suppression of the …
The Rumor of Globalization
Cultural Studies and Politics in India Today
Cultural Studies needs to be reinvented for India - a polity where the larger part of the population are disenfranchised non-citizens. The terrain of 'culture' here being differently constituted, manners could serve as a useful category for theorizing this difference. Included in 'manners' are a different historical formation of subjectivity as well as another ontology of representation. Further, Cultural Studies, so conceived, could productively…
Crossing the Howrah Bridge
This photo-essay analyzes the politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of 'outcast' Calcutta - the city that is the nightmare of urban planners and whose squalor, filth and poverty are taken to be indexes of the failure of the postcolonial urbanism as such. The city that turned itself into a barricade during the street-fighting years of the 1960s is now about to turn its back on its own subalterns (migrants from poorer areas), participating in urb…
Dream Kitsch - Folk Art, Indigenous Media and `9/11
This article explores the process of transmission of the image(s) of 9/11 through an ethnographic/art-historical examination of Bengali (Indian) pat (traditional scroll painting) made by a community of rural Indian artisans with little or no exposure to mass-media. It transpires that while the impact of mass-media - often held responsible for the extinction of `authentic' folk art - has been somewhat exaggerated, the argument put forward here is …
Taking Callon to Calcutta
Using archival evidence, this paper tries to use Callon's idea of ‘embeddedness of the economy in economics’ in order to understand the process of economization of India under the East India Company. The Company's state self-consciously tried to construct an economic terrain by using their coercive power, but the rise of the market did not lead to the proliferation of ‘calculative agencies’. The paper seeks to explore the reasons behind this by d…
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