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Awakening - The Story of the Bengal Renaissance [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2010] Subrata Dasgupta - Hardcover
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For a few glorious decades in the nineteenth century, bengal would witness a revolutionlike it never had before, and never would since it was a revolution of the mind and of a handful ofmen and women, but it would change the fabric of indian society irrevocably it began with a band of englishmen, led by the brilliant orientologist, william jones then there was the enigmatic rammohun roy who invented a reformed hinduism called the brahmo samaj; and his close friend, david hare, who conceived the idea of an institution which could teach the youth of bengal western thought, an idea that became the hindu college there was the ‘poet, philosopher, madman’ derozio who inspired a generation of youths at thehindu college; the tempestuous michael madhusudan datta who created new forms of bengaliverse on european lines; and michael’s well - wisher, the scholar vidyasagar, who fought fiercely forthe cause of hindu widows and women’s education there was bankimchandra, a civil servant whohel
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- Publisherrandom house india
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 8184001258
- ISBN 13 9788184001259
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages391
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