A01=Raktima Bhuyan
A01=Sanjib Pol Deka
Assam Colonial Modernity
Aural Practices
Author_Raktima Bhuyan
Author_Sanjib Pol Deka
Category=DSB
Category=JBSF1
Colonial Assam
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Literary Trends
Print History
Reading Public
Women's Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781666905410
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 159 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals and magazines of the time. Raktima Bhuyan and Sanjib Pol Deka argue for alternative literary trends and reading public in colonial Assam. The standardization of the Assamese language, along with the rise of the middle-class, engendered 'purity' of the language and experimentation with western mediums like the novel. This book places 'pre-modern verse' as an alternative literary practice equally embraced by the reading public during this period. At the threshold of Indian independence, issues like education as a blessing of colonial modernity needs to be subjected to discourses of morality and gender bias (and an attempt to prevent this) in the writings of the period, such as speeches, essays, and textbooks.
Raktima Bhuyan is research scholar in the Department of English at Tezpur University in Assam, India.
Sanjib Pol Deka is assistant professor in the Department of Assamese at Tezpur University in Assam, India.
