Tithi Bhattacharya

Broschiertes Buch

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence

A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

Beschreibung

Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengalâ s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century.

Autor

Tithi Bhattacharya is a Marxist historian and activist, writing extensively on gender and the politics of Islamophobia. She has been active in movements for social justice throughout her life, spearheading campaigns across three continents. She is the Professor of South Asian History at Purdue University and the author of The Sentinels of Culture (OUP, 2005). She is on the editorial board of International Socialist Review. She is the editor of Social Reproduction Theory (Pluto, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030713
• ISBN-10: 1478030712
• Artikelnr.: 69564256