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A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal - The Rise and Fall of Bengali Elitism in South Asia (Hardcover, New edition)
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A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal - The Rise and Fall of Bengali Elitism in South Asia (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Asian Thought and Culture, 65
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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both
Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its
modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in
North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of
Sanskritization. Centuries of invasions (1204-1757) resulted most
notably in the Islamization of Bengal. Often there were conflicts
between Sanskritization and Islamization. Later colonization of
Bengal by Britain (1757) led to a process of Angli-cization, which
created a new middle class in Bengal that, in turn, created a form
of elitism among the Bengali Hindu upper caste. After British rule
ended (1947), Bengali culture lost its elitist status in South Asia
and has undergone severe marginalization. Political instability and
economic insufficiency, as reflected by many quantitative and
qualitative indicators, are common and contribute to pervasive
unemployment, alienation, vigilantism, and instability in the
entire region. A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh
and West Bengal is appropriate not only for Bengali intellectuals
and scholars but for sociologists, political scientists, cultural
anthropologists, historians, and others interested in a case study
of how and why a given culture becomes derailed from its path
toward modernization.
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