Hemchandra's Bharat Sangeet (1870) and the politics of poetry
A pre-history of Hindu nationalism in Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8960960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-247 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001946460504200203 |
| OpenAlex | W2016700132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
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 political imagination in Bengal? A closer look at the conflicting pressures on the colonised cautions against a teleology which would see this poem as a precursor to a more pernicious strain of later Hindu nationalism while recognising, at the same time, that the dissemination of certain revolutionary ideals through a few influential literary texts inaugurated a philosophy of extremist politics in Bengal that travelled, in no time at all, from the literary arena into life
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · Colonialism · Epistemology · Hindu nationalism · Hinduism · Literature · Militant · Nationalism · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Teleology · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |