1st Edition
Print and Publishing in Colonial Bengal The Journey of Bidyasundar
Introduction 1. Bards in Court: Birth of a Text 2. Publishers in City: Birth of a Book 3. Missionary Among Critics: Start of Reviews 4. Actors on Stage: Recreation of the Fable 5. Tale Among Tales: The Spread of Print 6. Slokas from the Past: Reproduction of the Legend 7. Intellectuals in Discussion: Reinstating the Classic. Epilogue. Select Bibliography
Biography
Tapti Roy is an independent scholar based in Cambridge, UK. She is the author of The Politics of Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857 (1994) and Raj of the Rani (2006). She has also contributed chapters to edited volumes: ‘Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature’ in Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (1995) and ‘Tracking the Ephemeral: Elokeshi-Nabin-Mohanto Episode and the History of Print in Bengal’ in On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History (2018). She manages the blog pastconnect.net.
