In this book Chandra attempts to better understand the dominant structure of social consciousness in modern India through a study of various literary and social texts written in Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, and Marathi during the late colonial period. Chandra's skillful reading of texts that are often inaccessible to readers of English, as well as the insight he provides into the nature of social consciousness and the complex processes by which it develops, makes this an important resource for anyone interested in India's literary and social history.

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

Chandra, Sudhir

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

In this book Chandra attempts a better understanding of the dominant structure of social consciousness in modern India through a study of various literary and social texts written in Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, and Marathi during the late colonial period.

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (Oxford India Paperbacks)

History

Asia

These three authors map the issue of equality before law and various issues relating to women's rights, social justice, and empowerment. The omnibus forms a comprehensive and significant study for understanding why progressive laws, once passed, continue to be implemented in such a limited manner. It highlights that legislation even in the past fifty years have not brought equality.

Women and Law in India: An Omnibus comprising Law and Gender Inequality, Enslaved Daughters, Hindu Women and Marriage Law

Religion & Spirituality

Agnes, Flavia

Basu, Monmayee

Hinduism

This book provides a comprehensive framework for the study of Indian nationalism. Departing from uni-dimensional explanations of Indian nationalism--which see it as a product of of caste, interest or power groups, personalities or elites--it presents an integrated analysis of the situation in which national consciousness emerged in India. Chandra discusses topics like the background and legacy of 1857, social setting and reform movements, economic background and political aspects of the rise of nationalism, and also examines the formation of the Indian National Congress. With a new introduction, this book provides complete and updated research on the subject and will prove an essential resource for exploring the topic of Indian nationalism.

Dependence and Disillusionment: Emergence of National Consciousness in Later Nineteenth Century India

Three essential works on gender equality and law, one great omnibusHow have Indian laws evolved with regard to women's rights? What curbs the reach of the progressive laws introduced in India? These three texts highlight the fact that legislations in the past more than fifty years have not brought about gender equality in its real sense.Law and Gender Inequality maps the issue of gender and law reforms upon a canvas of history and politics, and explores strategies that could safeguard women's rights within the bounds of India's complex social and political landscape.Enslaved Daughters reveals the inner working of India's legal system during the colonial period and studies the conflicting and overlapping ideologies underpinning it.Hindu Women and Marriage Law studies the development and changes in Hindu marriage laws over the last century.

Women and Law in India

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book explores the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India’s Independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed to be non-violent was in fact not so. He realised that there was a causal relationship between the path of illusory ahimsa, which had held sway during the freedom struggle, and the violence that erupted thereafter during Partition. In the second edition of this much-acclaimed volume, Chandra revisits Gandhi’s philosophy to explain how and why the phenomenon of the Mahatma has been understood and misunderstood through the years. Calling for a rethink of the very nature and foundation of modern India, this book throws new light on Gandhian philosophy and its far-reaching implications for the world today. It will interest not only scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics and philosophy, but also lay readers.

Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility

Reference

Routledge India

Marking a departure from studies on history and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social consciousness as a result of and in response to the colonial mediation in the late nineteenth century. In focusing on contemporary literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi, it charts an epochal change in the gradual loss of the old pre-colonial self and the configuration of a new, colonized self. It reveals that the ‘oppressive present’ of generations of subjugated Indians remains so for their freed descendants: the consciousness of those colonized generations continues to characterize the ‘modern educated Indian’. The book proposes ambivalence rather than binary categories ― such as communalism and nationalism, communalism and secularism, modernity and tradition ― as key to understanding the making of this consciousness. This cross-disciplinary volume will prove essential to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Indian history and society, comparative literature and post-colonial studies.

Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book explores the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India's Independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed to be non-violent was in fact not so. He realised that there was a causal relationship between the path of illusory ahimsa, which had held sway during the freedom struggle, and the violence that erupted thereafter during Partition. In the second edition of this much-acclaimed volume, Chandra revisits Gandhi's philosophy to explain how and why the phenomenon of the Mahatma has been understood and misunderstood through the years. Calling for a rethink of the very nature and foundation of modern India, this book throws new light on Gandhian philosophy and its far-reaching implications for the world today. It will interest not only scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics and philosophy, but also lay readers.

Gandhi

For a man who made such a powerful intervention in the history of the 20th century, many of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas were misunderstood or obfuscated during his lifetime. This book draws our attention to Gandhi’s last years, particularly the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India’s Independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed to be non-violent was in fact not so. He realised that there was a causal relationship between the path of illusory ahimsa which had held sway during the freedom struggle and the violence that erupted thereafter during Partition.  Calling for a serious rethink on the very nature and foundation of modern India, this book throws new light on Gandhian philosophy and its far-reaching implications for the world today. It will interest not only scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics, and philosophy but also lay readers.

Philosophy

Marking a departure from studies on history and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social consciousness as a result of and in response to the colonial mediation in the late nineteenth century. In focusing on contemporary literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi, it charts an epochal change in the gradual loss of the old pre-colonial self and the configuration of a new, colonized self. It reveals that the ‘oppressive present’ of generations of subjugated Indians remains so for their freed descendants: the consciousness of those colonized generations continues to characterize the ‘modern educated Indian’. The book proposes ambivalence rather than binary categories ― such as communalism and nationalism, communalism and secularism, modernity and tradition ― as key to understanding the making of this consciousness.  This cross-disciplinary volume will prove essential to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Indian history and society, comparative literature and post-colonial studies.

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The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Women and Law in India: An Omnibus comprising Law and Gender Inequality, Enslaved Daughters, Hindu Women and Marriage Law

Dependence and Disillusionment: Emergence of National Consciousness in Later Nineteenth Century India

Women and Law in India

Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

Gandhi

Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India