The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Discourse in India (Soas Studies on South Asia)

This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be seen in a different, historical context. Contents......Page 3 Preface......Page 4 1. A Taste for Transgression......Page 5 2. Humour and the Prison of Reality......Page 18 3. The Myth of Praxis......Page 41 4. Imagining History......Page 58 5. Tragedy, Irony and Modernity......Page 84 Notes & References......Page 89 Index......Page 100 Critical study on Bengali novelist, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, 1838-1894.