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Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
By
Tithi Bhattacharya
Tithi Bhattacharya
Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, author of
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5969-1
Publication date:
2024
Chapter 2 describes the new ghostly world of modern Bhadralok society and roots its belief and practices in exclusionary social procedures. It studies popular and scholarly literature of the period to show that the new “sprits” were not only a world apart from the old precolonial ghosts, but that they emerged from and were nurtured by a neo-Hindu, exclusionary universe.
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