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020			_a9781433108204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a1433108208 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040			_cCUS
082	0	0	_a954.14 _bCHA/S
100	1		_aChatterjee, Pranab _920027
245	1	2	_aA story of ambivalent modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal: the rise and fall of Bengali elitism in South Asia / _cPranab Chatterjee
260			_aNew York: _bPeter Lang, _cc2010.
300			_axvi, 294 p.: ill.; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gCh. 1. _tIntroduction : the ambivalent modernization of Bengali culture -- _gCh. 2. _tPre-modern Bengal from antiquity to 1204 : centuries of Sanskritization; a culture built on fault-lines across caste divisions -- _gCh. 3. _tPre-modern Bengal between 1204 and 1757 : five plus centuries of Islamization; addition of more fault-lines across religious divisions -- _gCh. 4. _tAmbivalent modernization, 1757-1947 : almost two centuries of Anglicization - conflicts in knowledge, identity, and loyalty - addition of more fault-lines -- _gCh. 5. _tBangladesh and West Bengal since 1947 : ambivalent modernization continues; conflicts between Islamization, Bengali nationalism, Marxism, and peasant democracy; chronologies and quantitative trends -- _gCh. 6. _tBangladesh and West Bengal since 1947, part 2 : ambivalent modernization continues; conflicts between Islamization, Bengali nationalism, Marxism, and peasant democracy; some qualitative trends; summary and conclusions -- _gApp. _tIntellectual traditions in ethnographic studies.
650		0	_aElite (Social Sciences) _zBangladesh _920028
650		0	_aElite (Social Sciences) _zIndia _zWest Bengal _920029
650		0	_aBengali (South Asian People) _xSocial Conditions _920030
651		0	_aBangladesh _xCivilization _920031
651		0	_aWest Bengal (India) _xCivilization _920032
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