Rosinka Chaudhuri
Biographic Data
| ID | 521729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosinka Chaudhuri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosinka |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaudhuri |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUDHURI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…
The World Turn’d Upside Down: Reflections on World Literature
Picking a single influential book, this essay asks whose world it is that occurs in Emily Apter’s Against World Literature and speculates on what the argument looks like when seen from Calcutta/Kolkata. From there, crucially, it engages in a close encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Viśvasāhitya (1907), contrasting it with Goethe’s Weltliteratur, not just because it originated in a colonized country from a position without comparable status or a…
On the Colonization of India’ (1829): Public meetings, debates and later disputes
This article returns to the scene of excitement that comprised the topic labelled ‘On the Colonization of India’ in the newspapers and journals of 1829, an area explored once before by a group of established Left historians through debates on the specific issue of the ‘Bengal Renaissance’ in the mid-1970s. Beginning with the misreading by these historians of particular extracts from the Bengal Hurkaru in constructing their arguments for or agains…
Questions of minority, agency and voice: Student protests in India in 2016
This article takes up issues around questions of minority, agency and voice in relation to the student protests sparked off in the capital city of India, Delhi, in 2016, with other student protests reverberating in the background across India on different campuses – in the east, at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, and in the south, at Hyderabad University. Focusing on the moment at midnight 2 March 2016 when the student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was r…
A History of Indian Poetry in English
A History of Indian Poetry in English explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the legacy of English in Indian poetry. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Henry Louis Vi…
History of Indian Poetry in English
Empire, Nationalism, and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on history, politics, and society by Michael Collins (review)
The Politics of Naming: Derozio in Two Formative Moments of Literary and Political Discourse, Calcutta, 1825-31
Henry Derozio, India's first modern poet, used the pseudonym 'An East Indian' for several poems he published in his lifetime, and he may have used it again in a heated controversy that played itself out in the correspondence columns of the India Gazette, Calcutta's leading newspaper, from May 26 to June 5, 1825. The occasion was an editorial comment upon a community of office-goers in the city-called, at the time, 'sircars'-who had set up a liter…
Reading Bharatchandra: Literary Language and the Figuration of Modernity in Bengal (1822-1858)
In this essay, I suggest that to uncover the construction of literary production-whereby the dominant group constructs its reality and its history-is to interrogate the ‘pure’ text of traditional literary criticism in the context of the entire historical moment. The nineteenth-century literary sphere in Bengal witnessed a period of struggle between the popular indigenous inheritance in poetry and the formulation of a new modern poetry after Engli…
The Politics of Poetry: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representation in Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha
When Nabinchandra Sen published his epic poem, Palashir Yuddha, in Calcutta in 1875, a stormerupted in civil society that divided the literary community and disrupted the functioning of the Text Book Committee for a number of years afterwards. The objections of some men in the TextBook Committee of Bengal was fundamentally connected to their bias against the representation of the Muslim king Sirajuddaula as the last independent king of Bengal, fi…
History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha and the Question of Truth
History, it seems, has to attain a degree of scientificity, resident in the truth-value of its narrative, before it can be called history, as distinguished from the purely literary or political. Invoking the work of Jacques Rancière and Hayden White, this essay investigates the manner in which history becomes a science through a detour that gives speech a regime of truth. It does this by exploring the nineteenth-century relationship of history to…
Cutlets or Fish Curry: Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Current discussions on the development of modern literary genres and aesthetic conventions in nineteenth-century colonial Bengal have tended, perhaps because of its relative neglect in the modern day, to ignore the seminal role of poetry in formulating the nationalist imagination. In academic discourse, the coming together of the birth of the novel, the concept of history and the idea of the nation-state under the sign of the modern has led to a …
Hemchandra's Bharat Sangeet (1870) and the politics of poetry: A pre-history of Hindu nationalism in Bengal
This article intends to examine the legacy of an unabashedly militant Hindu image that the poet Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay inaugurated at the very inception of nationalist and literary discourse in India in a famous poem called Bharat Sangeet (1870). Where was this prescient image, which would become fundamental to a certain type of anti-colonial politics, located in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature, militancy and the politica…
An Ideology of Indianness: The Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes in the Poems of Henry Derozio
The first among the modern poets in colonial India to forge Îa language of nationhoodÌ for the benefit of Indians was Henry Derozio (1809Ò31), a figure who played a significant role in some of the earliest attempts at the creation and definition of a modern Indian identity. DerozioÌs work, notwithstanding his marginality in the context of contemporary Indian society, led to a forceful centrifugal dissemination of ideas of the imagined Indian nati…
The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore
Research Article| March 01 2004 The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore Rosinka Chaudhuri Rosinka Chaudhuri Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosinka Chaudhuri; The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore. Social Text 1 March 20…
Young India: A Bengal Eclogue': Or Meat-eating, Race, and Reform in a Colonial Poem
This essay uses a poem written by an Englishman in early nineteenth-century Calcutta, 'Young India: A Bengal Eclogue', to examine the contexts of reform, revision, and writing in Bengal in the 1820s and 1830s. The reform movement known as Young Bengal has been strangely bypassed in postcolonial narratives; yet this was a historical and epistemological moment that defined the shape of modern India. Radical and yet imitative, the movement incorpora…
The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore
Research Article| March 01 2004 The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore Rosinka Chaudhuri Rosinka Chaudhuri Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosinka Chaudhuri; The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore. Social Text 1 March 20…
The Politics of Naming: Derozio in Two Formative Moments of Literary and Political Discourse, Calcutta, 1825-31
Henry Derozio, India's first modern poet, used the pseudonym 'An East Indian' for several poems he published in his lifetime, and he may have used it again in a heated controversy that played itself out in the correspondence columns of the India Gazette, Calcutta's leading newspaper, from May 26 to June 5, 1825. The occasion was an editorial comment upon a community of office-goers in the city-called, at the time, 'sircars'-who had set up a liter…
Hemchandra's Bharat Sangeet (1870) and the politics of poetry: A pre-history of Hindu nationalism in Bengal
This article intends to examine the legacy of an unabashedly militant Hindu image that the poet Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay inaugurated at the very inception of nationalist and literary discourse in India in a famous poem called Bharat Sangeet (1870). Where was this prescient image, which would become fundamental to a certain type of anti-colonial politics, located in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature, militancy and the politica…
An Ideology of Indianness: The Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes in the Poems of Henry Derozio
The first among the modern poets in colonial India to forge Îa language of nationhoodÌ for the benefit of Indians was Henry Derozio (1809Ò31), a figure who played a significant role in some of the earliest attempts at the creation and definition of a modern Indian identity. DerozioÌs work, notwithstanding his marginality in the context of contemporary Indian society, led to a forceful centrifugal dissemination of ideas of the imagined Indian nati…
Young India: A Bengal Eclogue': Or Meat-eating, Race, and Reform in a Colonial Poem
This essay uses a poem written by an Englishman in early nineteenth-century Calcutta, 'Young India: A Bengal Eclogue', to examine the contexts of reform, revision, and writing in Bengal in the 1820s and 1830s. The reform movement known as Young Bengal has been strangely bypassed in postcolonial narratives; yet this was a historical and epistemological moment that defined the shape of modern India. Radical and yet imitative, the movement incorpora…
On the Colonization of India’ (1829): Public meetings, debates and later disputes
This article returns to the scene of excitement that comprised the topic labelled ‘On the Colonization of India’ in the newspapers and journals of 1829, an area explored once before by a group of established Left historians through debates on the specific issue of the ‘Bengal Renaissance’ in the mid-1970s. Beginning with the misreading by these historians of particular extracts from the Bengal Hurkaru in constructing their arguments for or agains…
Questions of minority, agency and voice: Student protests in India in 2016
This article takes up issues around questions of minority, agency and voice in relation to the student protests sparked off in the capital city of India, Delhi, in 2016, with other student protests reverberating in the background across India on different campuses – in the east, at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, and in the south, at Hyderabad University. Focusing on the moment at midnight 2 March 2016 when the student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was r…
Reading Bharatchandra: Literary Language and the Figuration of Modernity in Bengal (1822-1858)
In this essay, I suggest that to uncover the construction of literary production-whereby the dominant group constructs its reality and its history-is to interrogate the ‘pure’ text of traditional literary criticism in the context of the entire historical moment. The nineteenth-century literary sphere in Bengal witnessed a period of struggle between the popular indigenous inheritance in poetry and the formulation of a new modern poetry after Engli…
History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha and the Question of Truth
History, it seems, has to attain a degree of scientificity, resident in the truth-value of its narrative, before it can be called history, as distinguished from the purely literary or political. Invoking the work of Jacques Rancière and Hayden White, this essay investigates the manner in which history becomes a science through a detour that gives speech a regime of truth. It does this by exploring the nineteenth-century relationship of history to…
Cutlets or Fish Curry: Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Current discussions on the development of modern literary genres and aesthetic conventions in nineteenth-century colonial Bengal have tended, perhaps because of its relative neglect in the modern day, to ignore the seminal role of poetry in formulating the nationalist imagination. In academic discourse, the coming together of the birth of the novel, the concept of history and the idea of the nation-state under the sign of the modern has led to a …
Young India: A Bengal Eclogue': Or Meat-eating, Race, and Reform in a Colonial Poem
This essay uses a poem written by an Englishman in early nineteenth-century Calcutta, 'Young India: A Bengal Eclogue', to examine the contexts of reform, revision, and writing in Bengal in the 1820s and 1830s. The reform movement known as Young Bengal has been strangely bypassed in postcolonial narratives; yet this was a historical and epistemological moment that defined the shape of modern India. Radical and yet imitative, the movement incorpora…
An Ideology of Indianness: The Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes in the Poems of Henry Derozio
The first among the modern poets in colonial India to forge Îa language of nationhoodÌ for the benefit of Indians was Henry Derozio (1809Ò31), a figure who played a significant role in some of the earliest attempts at the creation and definition of a modern Indian identity. DerozioÌs work, notwithstanding his marginality in the context of contemporary Indian society, led to a forceful centrifugal dissemination of ideas of the imagined Indian nati…
The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore
Research Article| March 01 2004 The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore Rosinka Chaudhuri Rosinka Chaudhuri Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosinka Chaudhuri; The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore. Social Text 1 March 20…
Hemchandra's Bharat Sangeet (1870) and the politics of poetry: A pre-history of Hindu nationalism in Bengal
This article intends to examine the legacy of an unabashedly militant Hindu image that the poet Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay inaugurated at the very inception of nationalist and literary discourse in India in a famous poem called Bharat Sangeet (1870). Where was this prescient image, which would become fundamental to a certain type of anti-colonial politics, located in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature, militancy and the politica…
Cutlets or Fish Curry: Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Current discussions on the development of modern literary genres and aesthetic conventions in nineteenth-century colonial Bengal have tended, perhaps because of its relative neglect in the modern day, to ignore the seminal role of poetry in formulating the nationalist imagination. In academic discourse, the coming together of the birth of the novel, the concept of history and the idea of the nation-state under the sign of the modern has led to a …
History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha and the Question of Truth
History, it seems, has to attain a degree of scientificity, resident in the truth-value of its narrative, before it can be called history, as distinguished from the purely literary or political. Invoking the work of Jacques Rancière and Hayden White, this essay investigates the manner in which history becomes a science through a detour that gives speech a regime of truth. It does this by exploring the nineteenth-century relationship of history to…
The Politics of Poetry: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representation in Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha
When Nabinchandra Sen published his epic poem, Palashir Yuddha, in Calcutta in 1875, a stormerupted in civil society that divided the literary community and disrupted the functioning of the Text Book Committee for a number of years afterwards. The objections of some men in the TextBook Committee of Bengal was fundamentally connected to their bias against the representation of the Muslim king Sirajuddaula as the last independent king of Bengal, fi…
Reading Bharatchandra: Literary Language and the Figuration of Modernity in Bengal (1822-1858)
In this essay, I suggest that to uncover the construction of literary production-whereby the dominant group constructs its reality and its history-is to interrogate the ‘pure’ text of traditional literary criticism in the context of the entire historical moment. The nineteenth-century literary sphere in Bengal witnessed a period of struggle between the popular indigenous inheritance in poetry and the formulation of a new modern poetry after Engli…
The Politics of Naming: Derozio in Two Formative Moments of Literary and Political Discourse, Calcutta, 1825-31
Henry Derozio, India's first modern poet, used the pseudonym 'An East Indian' for several poems he published in his lifetime, and he may have used it again in a heated controversy that played itself out in the correspondence columns of the India Gazette, Calcutta's leading newspaper, from May 26 to June 5, 1825. The occasion was an editorial comment upon a community of office-goers in the city-called, at the time, 'sircars'-who had set up a liter…
Empire, Nationalism, and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on history, politics, and society by Michael Collins (review)
A History of Indian Poetry in English
A History of Indian Poetry in English explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the legacy of English in Indian poetry. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Henry Louis Vi…
History of Indian Poetry in English
On the Colonization of India’ (1829): Public meetings, debates and later disputes
This article returns to the scene of excitement that comprised the topic labelled ‘On the Colonization of India’ in the newspapers and journals of 1829, an area explored once before by a group of established Left historians through debates on the specific issue of the ‘Bengal Renaissance’ in the mid-1970s. Beginning with the misreading by these historians of particular extracts from the Bengal Hurkaru in constructing their arguments for or agains…
Questions of minority, agency and voice: Student protests in India in 2016
This article takes up issues around questions of minority, agency and voice in relation to the student protests sparked off in the capital city of India, Delhi, in 2016, with other student protests reverberating in the background across India on different campuses – in the east, at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, and in the south, at Hyderabad University. Focusing on the moment at midnight 2 March 2016 when the student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was r…
The World Turn’d Upside Down: Reflections on World Literature
Picking a single influential book, this essay asks whose world it is that occurs in Emily Apter’s Against World Literature and speculates on what the argument looks like when seen from Calcutta/Kolkata. From there, crucially, it engages in a close encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Viśvasāhitya (1907), contrasting it with Goethe’s Weltliteratur, not just because it originated in a colonized country from a position without comparable status or a…
The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…
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