Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
Sartori, Andrew
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Book ID : 45408
ISBN-10 : 93-6080-820-2 / 9360808202
ISBN-13 : 978-93-6080-820-4 / 9789360808204
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2025
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm. 294p.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts. Sartori weaves the narrative of Bengal’s embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept, from its origins in eighteenth-century Germany, through its adoption in England in the early 1800s, to its appearance in distinct local guises across the non-Western world. The impetus for the concept’s dissemination was capitalism, Sartori argues, as its spread across the globe initiated the need to celebrate the local and the communal. Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not by slavish imitation of colonizing powers, but by the same problems that repeatedly followed the advance of modern capitalism. This remarkable interdisciplinary study will be of significant interest to historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism. About the Author Andrew Sartori is assistant professor of history at New York University. In addition to being the author of numerous journal articles, he is coeditor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition.
