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- Title
Transforming Men: The Anglicisation of Bengali Masculinity in the Colonial Era.
- Authors
Kusari, Saswata
- Abstract
During the colonial era, when the British were in control of the administration of Bengal, they launched discourses meant to convince one and all about the drawbacks of Bengali men. In such discourses, the body of Bengali men became a countertype to the emerging ideals of masculinity prevailing in Europe in the nineteenth century. With ardent belief in the narratives popularised by the Colonisers, many Bengalis sought to reconstruct their manliness in order to fit into the normative model of masculinity. The paper, therefore, is an exploration of the ways in which Bengali masculinity went through processes of radical masculinisation during the 19th century till the independence; and how proximity to English language and culture shaped up the imagination of Bengali men.
- Subjects
INDIA; GREAT Britain-India relations; COLONIES; HISTORY of masculinity
- Publication
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 2, p42
- ISSN
0975-2935
- Publication type
Article