Article: The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal.(w)(Book Review)

Article: Behind the Mask: The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in ...
The Historian;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911). By Anindita Mukhopadhyay ... to understanding the rule of law in colonial Bengal. Introduced by the British in the ... understandings of legal subjectivity in colonial Bengal, Anindita Mukhopadhyay shows how ...

Article: Gaining imperial paradise: reading and rewriting paradise lost in ...
Nebula;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... in India to establish the popularity of Paradise Lost in colonial Bengal. In addition, I will demonstrate how the ubiquitous nature ... subjectification of the Indian. The popularization of Milton in colonial Bengal was rooted the pseudo-scientific discourse surrounding ...

Article: Down memory lane: representations of domestic workers in middle ...
Journal of Social History;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... service constituted one of the principal occupations of colonial Bengal. (2) From the 1880s on, there was an increasing demand ... trends in society and economy impacted on domestic workers in colonial Bengal. Nor is there any account of how the Bengali middle class ...

Article: Down memory lane: representations of domestic workers in middle ...
Journal of Social History;  March 22, 2004 ;     622 words ... ... Domestic Workers in Middle Class Personal Narratives of Colonial Bengal" Salvaging information from the autobiographical narratives ... relationships in predominantly Hindu middle class families of colonial Bengal. The essay focuses on a selective sample of Bengali autobiographical ...

Article: Songs of Ecstasy: mystics, minstrels, and merchants in ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... a Muslim fakir, the Kartabhajas are perhaps the most important later branch of the Sahajiya tradition which survived in colonial Bengal. In many respects, the Kartabhajas are a group much like the Bauls (who were neglected and ignored until made famous ...

Article: A PREHISTORY OF RIGHTS: THE AGE OF CONSENT DEBATE IN ...
Feminist Studies;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... raising the age of consent the ruler will be interfering with the religion of the Hindus ... " [2] Nineteenth-century colonial Bengal was not a time when individual rights as an inalienable, public, and explicit claim could be asserted by a woman as such ...

Article: Bourgeois Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Bourgeois Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal. By BRIAN A. HATCHER. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. Pp. xiv + 226. $65. With this new book, the scholar of ...