By Sudhir Chandra
Marking a departure from reviews on historical past and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social awareness due to and in keeping with the colonial mediation within the past due 19th century. In concentrating on modern literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi, it charts an epochal swap within the slow lack of the outdated pre-colonial self and the configuration of a brand new, colonized self. It finds that the ‘oppressive current’ of generations of subjugated Indians continues to be so for his or her freed descendants: the realization of these colonized generations maintains to represent the ‘modern proficient Indian’. The booklet proposes ambivalence instead of binary different types — resembling communalism and nationalism, communalism and secularism, modernity and culture — as key to realizing the making of this consciousness.
This cross-disciplinary quantity will end up necessary to students and scholars of contemporary and modern Indian heritage and society, comparative literature and post-colonial reviews.
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