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The Rays Before Satyajit
- Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
Engelsk Hardback
The Rays Before Satyajit
- Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
Engelsk Hardback

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Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. The first study in English of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and its collateral branches, The Rays Before Satyajit interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions. Whilst eager to learn from the West and rarely drawn to simple-minded nationalism, the Rays, at their best, shunned mere imitation and sought to create forms of the modern that were thoroughly Indian and enthusiastically cosmopolitan. Some of the outcomes of this quest such as Upendrakishore Rays innovations in half-tone photography were even appreciated in the West, though the metropolitan careers of colonial innovators, as the book shows, were inevitably constrained by forces beyond their control. Ranging confidently across the history of religion, literature, science, technology and entrepreneurial culture, The Rays before Satyajit is not only a collective biography of an extraordinary family but illuminates the history of Indian modernity from a bracingly original perspective.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
426
ISBN-13:
9780199464753
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0199464758
Udg. Dato:
23 jun 2016
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
147mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
OUP India
Oplagsdato:
23 jun 2016
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