Index
A Doll’s House
310
A.F.M. Abdul Haq
256
Abanindranath Tagore/Abanindranath
85
90
95
305
short story
80
Abanindranath’s
early paintings
91
writings
92
abarodh (seclusion)
317
318
320
325
Abarodh-bāsinī, serial narrative by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
321
abarodh-prathā (practice of seclusion)
319
322
abasar (leisure)
122
123
invention of
123
abasar samaẏ
123
Abbasid (period)
241
Abbasid Caliphate
259
260
Abdali Shah
246
Abdul Halim Gaznavi of Delduar
201
Abdul Karim/Abdul Karim Sahityabisharad
192
194
207
221
Abdul Mannan
227
Abdul Qadir
230
253
255
256
257
Abdul Wadud, Kazi
256
Abdullah (novel)
229
Abhijān
256
Abinashchandra Das
76
Abodhbandhu
43
Biharilal Chakrabarty’s literary monthly
42
Abul Fazl
237
256
Abul Hossain
230
256
258
Abul Kamal Shamsuddin
229
247
abuse of Press Acts
83
Acalāẏatan, lyrical drama
78
Achintyakumar Sengupta
1
64
76
175
182
184
188
354
355
Achintyakumar Sengupta’s Kallol Yug
204
Act for the Regulation of Printing-presses and Newspapers
29
Act passed by Legislative Council of India (1856)
133
Act XXV of 1867
29
31
299
300
institution of
33
adhunik sāhitya
174
178
180
187
189
adhunikatā or modernity
177
181
Adi Brahmo Samaj
44
77
Ādiras/ādirasā (primary rasa or aesthetics)
141
172
248
adulthood (baẏaḥprāpta)
47
139
advertisement/s
205
columns of periodicals
168
from petty trading concerns
97
in daily newspapers
100
of books
97
of toiletries
279
pages
72
Prabāsī received
97
rates
99
targeted specific reader groups
97
advice
essays
276
279
290
manuals
277
282
Aesop’s Fables
42
109
aesthetic
118
128
139
181
267
and literary categories
158
and moral code
162
bounds of literature
188
category
174
concepts
148
different
126
dispositions
15
disputes
130
experiments
16
expressions
19
forms
129
248
idea
46
ideals
165
imaginations
132
index
132
innovations
129
license
169
maturity
280
necessity of psychoanalysis (manabikalan)
178
needs
267
perfection
9
person
106
persuasions
23
84
practices, repertoires of
7
preferences
13
altered approach to
14
principles
118
129
qualities, acquisition and cultivation of
15
reader
105
115
refined
23
resolutions
153
sense of
16
sensibility/ies
13
51
73
93
114
138
lack of
24
of Bengali Cultural life
185
shift
93
space shared by women
300
spirit (sāhityik hṝday)
67
taste/s
65
93
150
362
threat
115
value of literature
10
values
149
world
46
181
created
96
aesthetically uniform readership
118
aestheticization
108
“aestheticized representation” of modern life
140
aesthetics
127
148
of middle class Bengali texts
137
principles of
126
Afghan
232
and Mughal imperia
234
and Mughal regime
233
235
King Ahmad Shah Abdali
244
African cultural renaissance movements
330
Āgamanī
357
Age of Consent Bill
21
170
(The) Age of Consent for girl wives
164
Age of consent for girls
169
Age of Consent (1891) of minor wives
124
Agnibīnā
352
353
agrarian
political discourse
264
problems of peasant impoverishment
263
violence
98
Agricultural journals
56
Āguner Fulkī
77
“Ahel Tauhid”
260
ahiṃsā
27
337
ahistoricism (anaitihāsikatā)
25
Āhmadī
56
Ahmed Shah Bangash
251
Aitihasik Citra (journal)
124
142
Ajanta cave frescoes
90
Ajijannehar
197
Ajitkumar Chakrabarty
154
173
Akbar
237
Akbar-e-Islāmīẏa
197
Akbaruddin
240
241
Akshaychandra Sarkar/Akshaychandra
49
59
105
106
Akshaykumar Datta Gupta
30
31
35
36
299
300
Akshaykumar Dutta
44
365
Akshaykumar Maitreya
60
77
237
Akshaykumar Sarkar
67
147
“Al Adl”
260
Al Farabi
260
Al Kindi
260
Ālāler Gharer Dulāl
54
Ālālī
54
alaṃkaraśastra
172
Alaoal
215
Alauddin
237
“alem samāj”
262
262
Al-Eslam
192
201
206
209
210
219
220
222
226
227
228
240
253
317
Alexander Dow
249
250
Alexander Dumas
38
Alipore Conspiracy Case
351
All India Congress Committee
333
All India Muslim League
194
333
All India Women’s Conference (AIWC)
287
288
All the Year Round
49
49
Allahabad
74
75
116
Ālocanā (discussion) section of Prabāsī
80
alpa śikṣita
138
alternative
“aestheticized politics”
349
audiences
73
126
forms of social service
297
literary sphere
25
piety
263
possibilities about society and politics
125
readership, narrative of an
192
formation of
24
reading
122
habits
42
socio-cultural worlds
323
solidarities
196
to Western Education
57
Amār Deś (song)
271
Āmār Jīban
45
60
122
Amaravati temple of the Gupta period
75
Amarendranath Roy
154
amateur
artists
95
author’s apprehensions
184
authors
64
first forum for publication for
13
women writers
273
writers
20
60
American
business
97
businessmen
99
Magazines
85
Amritalal Basu
41
46
56
Amritalal Shil
78
Amṝta Bājār Patrikā
26
anaislāmikatā (un-Islamicism/ahistoricity)
247
249
253
anaitihāsik (un-historical)
253
Analytical Psychology
189
Anāmikā (The nameless/undefined woman)
186
Ānandamaṭh
49
59
223
240
286
357
‘Ānandamaẏīr Āgamane’
357
358
Anandamohan Bose
293
Anaṅga-āśram
169
172
anarchic
form of popular culture
143
social sphere
130
anarchical land
235
anarchist fiction
330
anarchy
24
115
128
146
187
ancient
India, architectural splendors of
76
Indian polity, citizen of
167
law giver, Manu
167
Sanskrit literature, spirit of
172
andarmahal
283
Anglo-Indian recipes
278
Āṅgur
201
Anjuman Ulema-e Bangla
192
204
228
Annadāmaṅgal
40
42
Annapūrnār Mandir
176
Ānnesā (journal)
201
Annual
average retail prices
99
maintenance budgets for libraries
117
report/s
31
35
36
of the Bengal Library Catalogue
200
Reviews
30
31
33
36
subscription (of Prabāsī)
99
subscription dues, advance payments of
100
antaḥpur
266
268
271
302
Antaḥpur (journal)
42
51
69
157
278
291
295
305
317
editorial office of
67
anti-fiction rhetoric
208
227
anti-Islam (Islām birodhī)
206
anti-Islamic activities
206
Anti-modernists
188
anti-Muslim rhetoric
239
“antinuptial” love
247
248
anti-Partition agitations
332
361
anti-Simon agitation
306
anti-Tagore
alliance of intellectuals
154
critic
155
anti-Tagorean pronunciations
154
Antoine Rous marquis de La Mazzeliére’s
108
Antonio Gramsci
12
Anupama Devi
207
Anurupa Devi
108
176
298
299
Anusandhān (journal)
286
Appellate High Court at Calcutta
34
Arabian and Persian Tales, Bengali renderings of
40
Arabian Nights
42
Arabic
32
216
218
219
221
225
226
232
258
360
and Persian scripts
215
characters, scripting Bengali in
222
Vocabulary
222
“Arabic and Bengali Books”
196
Ārabya Upanyās (Arabian Nights)
215
248
Araṇyabās, Abinashchandra Das’s
77
Archaeological Survey of India
231
Aristotle
260
Arjun
169
171
172
237
Arjun-Citrangada
170
Arnold’s
line of appreciation
151
sense of urbanity
173
Arnoldian
form of critique
229
quest for perfection
9
Arnoldian’s lines
151
art
72
162
albums
93
94
authenticity of certain types of
93
-critic
72
92
liberty of
161
-publics
94
work
73
“art for art’s sake”
157
162
Arthur Rakham
94
Arya Nari Samaj (1879)
293
Āryadarśan (journal)
49
117
Asadunnessa
324
Asaṯ-sāhitya (dishonest/indecent literature)
156
Ashwini Kumar Dutta
324
Asia
85
Asiatic Society
231
aśikṣita
50
51
138
aślīl or indecent
131
150
153
159
171
173
189
300
or ādirasātmak
170
sāhitya
174
works, task of purging
136
Aślīlatā (or obscenity)
24
127
130
132
137
149
168
169
173
186
190
247
in Bengali periodicals, acrimonious debates over
130
regulative aesthetic
24
Aślīlatā Nibāranī Samiti (Society for the Eradication of the Obscenity)
136
137
Asutosh Mukherjee
116
Atia Hossain
274
ati-ādhunik sāhitya/ati-ādhunik literature
174
176
186
188
Atmiya Sabhā
34
attributes of
gaṇadharma
63
the informed critic
151
Atulprasad Sen
80
Atulprasad Sen’s Uttarā
63
80
Aurangzeb
235
237
252
Aurobindo Ghose
159
351
353
358
authentic
history
251
253
‘Islamic past’
25
scriptural tradition
270
authenticating literary production
149
authoritativeness of gṝhadharma
310
autobiography/ies
140
235
autonomous (svatantra)
cultural space
158
literary agenda for Bengali Muslims
191
literary sphere
24
nation
330
national space
96
niche for the nation
93
space
178
autonomy
for women
294
in the literary field
266
lack of
293
of aesthetics
10
of poetry
10
of thought (svādhīn cintā)
259
avant-garde
journals
181
205
literary practices
179
literature in Bengal
179
periodicals
179
Awadh Nawab
246
250
Azizur Rahman
352
Azra Asghar Ali
312
Babu Rampran Gupta
236
Babur
245
Bagbazar Reading Library
116
Baghdad
261
Baidya Hitaiṣiṇī (journal)
20
Baikunthanath Das, co-editor Pradip
69
Baiṣṇab
20
56
Baiṣṇab Sandarbha
20
Bāiṣṇab Sebikā
56
Baiśya Patrikā
20
‘Bajramukuṭ o Padmābatī’ (Abanindranath’s painting)
91
Bālprabhākar (journal in Hindi)
95
Bāmābodhinī Patrikā (journal)
34
44
103
277
Bāmābodhinī Sabhā
34
44
Bamandas Basu
75
79
Bamapada Bandyopadhyay
90
Bande Mātaram
26
59
240
271
Bandir Bandanā
186
Banga Mahila Samaj (1879)
293
Baṅgabāni (journal)
36
85
147
286
357
Baṅgabhāṣā
191
Baṅgadarśan (Baṅgadarśan: Māsikpatra o Samālocanā) (journal)
7
15
22
28
29
35
38
42
47
49
55
59
61
63
69
75
120
124
137
140
149
151
208
363
Baṅgadarśan Kāryālaẏ
47
Baṅgadarśan (Nabaparyyāẏ)
72
142
143
144
146
363
365
Baṅgadarśan’s
agenda
22
51
53
purpose
46
Baṅgādhipaparājaẏ
143
Baṅgalakṣmī
72
298
306
310
reformist journal
302
Bāṅgālīr Anna-Samasyā (essay)
78
Baṅganūr (journal)
317
360
Baṅgasāhitya
28
29
47
139
195
Baṅgīẏa Musalmān Sāhitya Pariṣaṯ
219
Baṅgīẏa Musalmān Sāhitya Patrikā (journal)
201
229
350
Baṅgīẏa Musalmān Sāhitya Samiti
191
Baṅgīẏa Sāhitya Pariṣaṯ
43
68
Baṅgīẏa Sāhitya Pariṣaṯ Library
116
Bāṅglā bhāṣā/“Bāṅglā Bhāṣā”
28
54
208
223
Bāṅglā sāhitya
45
Bāṅglā Sāhitye Saogāt Yug
204
Bāṅglā Sāmaẏik-patra/Bāṅglā Sāmaẏikpatra (Bangali Periodicals)
17
43
Bāṅglā Saṃbādpatra
59
Bāṅglār Kathā
206
Bankim’s
aesthetic world
142
historical fiction
239
historical novels
252
nationalist agenda
60
novels
47
53
own press
47
popular novels
49
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay/Bankimchandra/Bankim
5
22
28
43
44
46
47
49
50
52
54
55
57
60
63
123
137
138
141
151
208
238
241
286
363
bār-banitār prem
156
158
Barin Ghosh/Barindra Kumar Ghosh
159
351
351
352
Barkatullah
259
261
bāro bhu̐iẏā
239
Basantakumar Chattopadhyay
166
Basanti Devi
267
basic principles of purdah
276
bāstab (reality)
177
bāstabatā
133
177
178
bastutantrahīn (non-realist)
179
Basumatī
26
85
103
104
publicist
166
Basumatī Sahitya Mandir
103
104
Baṭtalā
40
42
46
51
53
56
57
93
105
130
131
135
138
146
167
283
285
fiction
315
market
22
40
53
print/s
135
215
productions
134
world of
365
Baṭtalā puthi
215
Baudelaire
177
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
320
324
355
Begum Sofia Khatun
315
(The) Bengal Catalogues
35
83
Bengal Legislative Council
337
Bengal Library
31
35
47
61
69
140
Bengal Library Catalogues
29
32
33
34
46
47
49
62
103
150
196
200
216
Bengal Library Catalogues of Books and Periodicals
31
35
36
37
47
74
90
99
111
Bengal Provincial Congress
333
Bengal Renaissance
18
Bengal’s
early colonial encounters
18
literary history
188
Muslim/s
25
192
Muslim community
222
Muslim Society
207
Bengali
aesthetic values
189
criticism
151
cultural consciousness
189
cultural life
185
education
73
Hindu intelligentsia
214
intellectuals
77
intelligentsia
3
7
118
English educated
50
literary public sphere
9
literary sphere
4
6
9
19
21
24
27
63
126
128
130
186
190
191
321
325
362
formative stages of
29
literature (Baṅgasāhitya)
22
45
57
59
76
77
83
112
139
177
madhyabitta
122
miscellanies
76
monthly
99
nation
364
regionalism
258
revolutionary spirit
352
Bengali middle-class/es
95
124
128
135
174
366
domesticity
310
homes
21
73
104
273
Periodical/s
34
80
94
125
133
210
public sphere
7
8
28
147
167
readership
73
182
209
social life
15
society
50
128
158
183
Translator
32
136
writers
47
67
Bengali Muslim/s
191
194
196
207
217
219
224
233
253
314
360
Artist
200
Community
96
intellectuals
212
360
Intelligentsia
209
212
219
257
reformist
315
leadership
335
literary periodicals
19
197
265
317
literary sphere
24
25
191
201
217
227
228
254
257
265
madhyabitta , new
364
middle classes
217
311
335
monthlies
96
periodicals
18
20
126
213
214
192
197
201
207
223
224
229
231
314
publicists
25
214
218
220
233
239
265
society
197
women
26
315
319
readership
315
writers
209
‘Bengalicization’, process of
312
Betāl Pañcaviṃśati
42
Betāler Baiṭhak
80
82
Bhabanicharan Laha
91
bhadralok
14
41
42
64
98
103
105
111
124
141
165
185
266
class
287
364
groups
365
political agenda, critique of
366
society
142
status
363
Bhadramahila
122
literate middle-class
301
normative category of
312
Bhadramahila’s social role
272
Bhāgavat
137
Bhāgyacakra
77
Bhāndār (journal)
210
‘Bhāṅgār Gān’
352
Bhāratbarṣa (journal)
9
23
27
49
65
70
85
91
95
103
104
108
126
127
142
147
166
168
182
196
204
211
330
335
340
341
Bharatchandra
170
171
Bhāratī (journal)
22
35
55
60
63
69
72
76
90
96
103
104
117
159
210
286
305
Bhāratī o Bālak (journal)
61
‘Bhāratmātā’ (Abanindranath’s painting)
92
Bhāratmātā
241
Bhatpara grammarians
54
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
49
286
299
Bibidhārtha Saṃgraha (journal)
42
43
105
Bicitrā (journal)
62
155
172
bidhabār prem
155
158
Bidrohī Kabi or Rebel Poet
354
‘Bidrohīr Kaifiẏaṯ’ (A Vindication of the Rebel)
356
Bidyādarśan (journal)
47
Biharilal Chakrabarty, poet
43
Bihishti Zewar (Requisites of Islam)
314
Bijaẏa-Basanta
47
139
Bijñān (journal)
20
Bijñān Darpaṇ (journal)
20
Bijñān Rahasya (journal)
34
Bijoychandra Majumdar
75
77
207
Bikramāditya Upākhyān
215
Bikrampur (journal)
56
bilingual
indigenous male elite
269
public sphere
270
binaries
19
145
Binoy Ghosh
17
18
151
biography
25
30
35
227
Bipinchandra Pal
42
45
77
133
154
160
181
‘Birahī Yakṣa’ (Abanindranath’s painting)
92
Bīrbhūmī (journal)
56
Bīrbhūmī (Nabaparyyāẏ) (journal)
56
Bireshwar Chattopadhyay
182
Biṣabṝkṣa
46
49
121
139
144
363
biśwajanīn dharmabād (universal religion)
260
Boycott
British law courts
337
of foreign goods
338
of foreign Textiles
338
of Legislative Councils
337
Brahmacarya āśram
77
341
Brahmo
77
132
165
Brajamadhab Basu
47
Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay
17
18
50
206
Brata/s
304
British feminists
303
British Museum Library
30
British Publishing houses
116
Buddhadev Bose
1
177
179
181
184
188
Buddhibādi (rationalist)
257
Buddhir Mukti
25
258
260
264
265
Buddhir Mukti Āndolan
255
261
360
Buddhir Mukti intellectuals
259
Buddhist literary theories
172
Buddhist monastery of Bodhgaya
75
Burke
343
byakti mānab (individual-human)
1
3
348
making of the
2
Byron
39
42
46
254
C.F. Andrews
338
C.R. Das
333
356. See also Chittara
Calcutta dialect
224
Calcutta Medical College
185
Calcutta Public Library
40
Calcutta Review
35
Calcutta University
212
Calcutta’s
petty bourgeoisie
175
pre-eminent elites
38
Calcutta-based monthly
72
Caliphal
dynasties, histories of
242
order
235
262
264
polity
242
state
242
Caliphate
260
Caliphs
241
calit bhāṣā (the spoken form)
66
224
calit form
224
Campbell
39
Candraśekhar
49
121
143
286
Cār Iẏāri Kathā
66
Caritrahīn
128
171
carkā
336
340
344
345
354
Cārupāṭh
303
Cāṣbās (journal)
56
Casi Raj Pandit
249
250
caste and
class boundaries
178
religion
4
196
caste based
associations
20
periodicals
20
caste journals
56
caste prejudices
4
catalogue/s
31
33
34
36
Catalogue of Books and Periodicals
62
catalogue compilation
30
33
categories of morality (dharma/nīti)
172
Caturaṅga (journal)
66
205
celibate widowhood
161
162
Cellular Jail in Andaman
358
censorial Act
134
censorship laws
83
131
Census for registering oneself as educated
114
Census of 1921
112
114
211
Central Khilafat Committee
333
‘Central or Standard Bengali’
224
centrality
in the public sphere
124
125
of physical desires
190
Chaitanya Library
28
116
Chand Sultan
237
Chandicharan Sen
109
Chandranath Basu
35
131
143
151
Chandranath Bidyaratna, the grammarian
54
changes in marriage
practices
163
principles
163
changing cultural politics
124
Charles Dickens
39
49
Charles Tegart
355
Charubala Devi
207
Charuchandra Bandyopadhyay
92
207
Charuchandra Mitra
242
chaste (sādhu) Bengali
25
chastity and promiscuity
161
Chatterjee’s Picture Album
90
Chaudhuri (Pramatha)
65
66
cheap
farces
42
prints
135
sensation fiction
67
sentimental fiction
147
‘cheap literature’
53
Chelebelā
119
120
121
Tagore’s autobiography
194
Cheleder Pāttāṛi (Children’s Lessons)
101
Chicago Tribune
80
child marriage
145
158
161
164
315
270
age-old custom
168
contestations about
168
questions
170
(The) Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929
272
childcare
44
subjugation
14
children’s
education
75
entertainment and lessons
101
magazines
101
Chintamani Ghosh
74
Chittaranjan Das
95
159
364
choices of reading
146
Christian Tract and Book Society
196
Christianity
134
Cikiṯsā Darpaṇ (journal)
20
56
Cikiṯsā Prakāś (journal)
20
Cikiṯsādarśan (journal)
56
Cikiṯsak (journal)
20
56
circulation of
Bengali Muslim periodicals
192
books
23
Ideas, social space for
7
citizen of ancient Indian polity
167
citizenship
agenda of
2
ideals of
6
Citrāṅgadā
170
172
175
248
286
controversies surrounding
132
criticism of
170
debate
173
Rabindranath’s lyrical ballad
247
Tagore’s lyrical ballad
169
Citrāṅgadā’s immoral content
171
‘civil social institutions’, modern
6
civil society
7
173
civilizing
and reformist discourses
41
the heathen cultures
134
class-based ideology
118
classical Islam
235
259
pasts of
233
242
classifying Indian literary traditions
32
code/s of
feminine conduct
295
Hindu respectability
167
morality
135
139
coercive power of Hindu marriage system
145
Cokher Bāli
142
157
161
363
collective
literary sphere
197
readings of pān̐cāli
136
colloquial
Bengali
54
214
language
134
prose
180
rhetoric
141
vocabulary
216
colonial
administration
38
52
79
113
133
134
212
administrators
232
archives
21
28
29
Bengal
18
23
95
99
124
143
282
294
362
bhadralok, making of the
185
bureaucratic
49
216
bureaucrats
136
269
classes
120
classificatory schemes
310
critique
145
discourse
239
domestic space
121
domination
40
economy
95
education
52
238
policy
52
system
7
107
114
236
apparatus of the
53
critique of the
50
epistemology
32
government
29
271
idea of education
51
India
120
intelligentsia
28
29
judicial system
5
knowledge
32
36
library series
40
116
market place
95
middle classes
73
120
missionary-bureaucracy
173
modernity
10
18
120
195
216
231
patriarchy
311
policies
62
policing
128
politics
269
power
114
141
practices in thinking
359
public sphere
124
269
regime
120
rhetoric around obscenity
131
rule
4
36
50
57
114
142
212
225
313
359
rulers
136
267
state
3
4
22
41
124
128
194
219
270
347
bureaucratic structures of the
33
new initiatives of the
51
state’s
legislative intervention
124
perception and surveillance
36
primary and higher education schemes
112
resources
52
role in fashioning a language policy
68
urban habitat
183
colonialism
4
17
22
colonialist
historiography
231
justification of British rule
235
colonized
babu
141
Bengali intelligentsia
252
Indian subjects
189
population
353
society
17
subject
140
commercial
dimensions
73
literary periodicals
103
market for print
149
presses
40
print market
22
publications
40
vernacular print
134
commercialization
37
63
68
73
95
of Bengali literature
83
of print
110
148
commercializing
a literary market
103
market for periodicals
71
phase of periodical production
118
commercially successful periodical
47
common
art preferences
72
Bengali readers, lives of
19
domestic practice
17
feature of Prabāsī
75
literary public
64
metaphor
156
people
82
readers
20
115
“common reader”
109
communal
animosities
194
representation in University governing bodies
212
communication/s
modern forms of
1
premodern channels of
7
Communist intellectuals
355
Communist Party of India
350
community
4
of ordinary readers (pāṭhak samāj)
114
of readers (pāṭhak samāj)
4
companionate marriage
152
286
compulsory primary education
113
concept of
Islamic universalism
260
the bāstab
176
the tāmasik guṇ
186
time
123
Congress
341
348
politics
83
volunteers
333
consensual
marriage
166
wedlock
128
conservative
critics
132
intellectuals
154
literary critics
24
publicists
129
190
-revivalists
154
constitutional
developments
19
politics
2
27
procedures
83
contemporary
journals
90
literary discourses
26
perceptions or social values
20
periodicals
15
207
principles of literary realism
183
publicists
201
society
184
controversies over the death of a child-wife
169
conventional
essay on Hindu marriage
163
history writing
26
ideas of chastity
24
norms of society
132
notions of leisure
121
copyrights
74
(The) Cornhill Magazine
49
cosmopolitan
19
Bengali aesthetic
95
literature
108
cost of printing Pradīp
90
costs in running a periodical
100
cottage-industry
75
340
counter hegemonic literary initiatives
19
craft of homemaking (gharkarṇā)
25
creating
a lekhakgoṣṭhī
60
a new middle-class art-public
92
an aesthetic
106
refined literary tastes
130
social awareness
145
creation of a modern nation-state
2
creative
genres
200
individuals
1
“critical anarchism”
152
critical reviews
148
criticism/s
11
148
149
of art
92
of modernist aesthetics
133
of novel-reading
143
of the liberal variety
159
critics individual taste (ruci)
152
critique
against Tagore
181
of patriarchy
314
of seclusion (abarodh-prathā)
319
Crusades
260
experience of
261
cultivation of taste or ruci
105
cultural
acceptance
143
agent
73
anti-colonialism
10
commodity
24
143
consumption
118
discourse
142
displacement
189
expressions
19
hegemony
114
identity
135
knowledge
18
nationalism
130
obscenity
134
sensibilities of the educated bhadralok
185
sensibility
181
Culture and Anarchy
12
customary
practices
15
rituals
163
Dacca University
256
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar
207
Dakshineshwar
104
Damascus
260
dān
69
Daniel Defoe
143
Dante
254
Dara Shikoh
257
Daulat Kazi
215
Deanglicising
50
debate/s
15
20
65
106
174
194
217
221
222
247
251
253
257
261
271
317
among grammarians
55
on child bride
132
169
on Citrāṅgadā
160
169
171
172
on Islamic and Islamicate pasts
25
on obscenity
161
over genre
227
over obscenity (aślīlatā)
127
over some of Tagore’s works
153
155
surrounding Hindu marriage system
145
154
debating parties
170
Debendranath Sen
75
Debendranath Tagore
44
293
Debi Coudhurāṇī
223
Debiprasanna Raychaudhury’s Nabyabhārat
55
defunct periodicals
37
democracy
8
democratic
268
readership
8
democratization
8
29
55
177
of print
73
103
of the public sphere
127
democratizing
literary space
114
public sphere
22
nationalist public space
68
Department of Education
213
Deśbideśer Kathā
101
Deśer Kathā
101
Devadās
160
Devanagari
32
Dhaka
211
Dhaka district
213
dhārābāhik kathāsāhitya (serial fictions)
142
dharma (morality)
170
Dhumketu (journal)
323
326
331
353
357
359
Dhumketu’s agenda
353
356
Dhurjatiprasad Mukhopadhyay
3
11
‘dialect’
216
dialogues
20
and debates
20
different
groups of readers
24
modes of reading
105
coexistence of
13
differentiated reader expectations
141
differentiations in education
53
Digdarśan (journal)
43
dilemmas of
modernity
3
the colonized
39
Dinabandhu Mitra
49
Dinabandhu Mitra’s Jāmāi Bārik
41
Dineshchandra Sen
77
Dineshranjan Das
1
174
Dineshranjan Das’s Kallol (1923)
70
discourse/s
50
about a Hindu nationhood
154
about the social function of fiction
152
of nationhood
145
on education
306
on femininity
306
on women
270
290
discussions on Vāṯsyāẏan’s Kāmasūtra
167
distorted history/ies
232
233
238
district
bulletins
19
20
journals
56
district dialects of Bengal
214
dobhāṣī/do-bhāṣī
or Islami Bāṅglā tradition of the puthi
217
romances
227
dobhāṣī Bengali
216
domain of
Baṭtalā
138
Musalmani Bāṅglā print
34
Muslim-Bengali periodicals
34
208
politics
10
306
popular prints
115
130
print production
14
rajdharma
63
refinement and creativity
139
Science and philosophy
261
the state
146
195
domestic
advices
272
age for literature
152
duties
294
303
fiction
152
ideals of gṝhalakṣmī
295
lives
268
market
73
339
space (gṝha)
153
274
281
282
300
310
sphere
124
268
277
310
311
domesticity
14
131
132
144
145
268
274
275
277
282
298
310
and conjugality
268
beyond the confines of
26
bhadralok
14
interactions between
22
dominant
discourse
15
European disciplinary paradigm
236
‘Hindu’ interpretation of India’s history
231
historiographical practices
232
literary canons
131
narratives of nationalism
15
‘taste’
13
Dryden
144
Durani military camps
244
Durgacharan Roy
120
Durgadas Lahiri
237
Durgeśnandinī
41
54
Bankim’s first novel
54
Durkheim
156
Dwijendralal Roy
151
154
132
nationalist poet
160
plays of
238
poet
170
171
187
Dwijendranath Tagore
44
55
61
77
79
earlier
phase of Bengali Muslim periodical production
208
reformist discourse
303
early
history of Islam
242
Islam
195
196
philosophical traditions of
25
modern France
23
modern Islamic world
243
periodicals
69
phase of Kallol’s career
185
print culture/s
23
37
254
twentieth century
192
twentieth-century Bengal
65
204
vernacular journalism
18
East Asia
80
241
East Bengal
98
East India Company’s political agenda
38
eastern district
216
eclectic literary culture
215
economic
and socio-cultural markers
118
desperation
174
dislocations
23
growth
121
independence
343
resources
114
Eden Hostel
208
Editor of
Bhāratbarṣa (journal)
96
Islām Pracārak (journal)
209
the monthly Sabuj Patra
96
editorial
experiments
62
in Prabāsī
191
office of Antaḥpur
69
Editorial Approach
57
Edmund Dulac
94
educated
Bengali mind
18
Bengali Muslim
217
bhadralok
41
185
bilingual elite
44
Hindu and Brahmo intelligentsia
26
Indians
117
middle class’s encounter with
177
middle-class homes
14
Muslim women
314
Muslim youth
208
reader
114
upper class bhadralok
46
upper classes (uccaśreṇī)
50
in Calcutta
41
woman/women
267
288
in Bengali
267
education (śikṣādān)
2
8
39
54
288
308
315
318
363
and aesthetic sensibility
151
and self-refinement
2
for women
304
317
system
49
52
113
hierarchical and institutionalized
2
universal accessibility
7
educational
and professional opportunities
212
books
106
distinction
63
institutions
252
291
310
literature
40
educative value
144
Egypt
258
262
eighteenth-century Maratha past
252
elective marriage
21
electricity connections in Calcutta
23
Eliot/T.S. Eliot
177
179
Eliot and Baker hostels
208
elite
68
circles
221
hegemonic agenda
19
leadership
political and ideological modalities of
11
Elphinstone
251
253
Elphinstone’s History of India
249
250
Emdad Ali
247
248
252
emergent
literary sphere
71
middle classes
254
public sphere
124
social sensibility
152
emerging
idea of territoriality
76
mode of literary communication
55
reformist intelligentsia
136
empirical
knowledge
238
practices
233
emotional companionship
164
employment of child labor
179
‘encounters’ among readers, concept of
20
end of the War
212
encyclopedia
82
encyclopedic
83
End of the First World War
176
178
England
43
49
144
343
English
54
144
220
343
and French publics
154
books
33
editorial venture
92
educated Bengali/s
22
41
60
bhadralok
137
first generation of the
22
indigenous elite
135
intelligentsia
52
upper-caste Hindu Bengali
50
young men
208
education
39
52
94
113
219
emotions from
144
fiction
39
40
44
143
gentlemen
39
historians
249
literary studies
39
literature/s
35
39
or Western education
38
periodicals
33
pundits
28
Romantic poets
39
enlightenment (udbodhan)
150
knowledge
184
entertainment (āmod)
144
needs of a juvenile community
217
entrepreneur-editor
204
epic
25
40
107
249
252
254
text
249
works
220
epidemic in the body social
156
epitomize yugadharma
248
equivalence between women and wealth
165
era of Baṅgadarśan
151
Ernest Jones
182
erotic
contents of medieval Bengali texts
146
narrations
137
tales
139
erudite
commentator
65
debate among grammarians
55
elite
14
scholars
59
Eslamabadi
234
235
essay form
13
essays
44
49
76
and fiction
315
on histories of classical Islam
241
Essays, Francis Bacon’s
40
essential ‘Hinduness’
191
ethical
code/s
135
161
critique of society
129
governance
242
merit
132
principles (naitik upadeś)
248
social life, modern sense
14
ethnic group
5
ethnographers
232
ethnographic surveys of the Bengali province
216
Europe
6
80
120
189
and the Islamic world
260
European
109
ascendency
243
critics
151
fiction
61
translations of
6
historian
234
literature
180
mine and mill owners
179
missionaries
269
modernism
177
modernist literature
174
nations
262
traditions
19
works, reviews of
6
world of letters
6
evening dailies
26
evidence based histories of Islamic regimes
233
expanding
market for periodicals
103
periodical market
29
readership
29
127
expansion
in periodical reading
121
in vernacular literacy
112
of colonial educational and professional infrastructure
212
of literacy
68
of the literary sphere
177
expatriate Bengalis, achievements of
79
experiences of 1857
134
experiments
in vocabulary
25
with free verse or prose-poetry (gadya sāhitya)
180
exploring the subconscious
185
extant artifacts
73
extension of education
211
extremist
campaigner
353
Congress leader
45
fables
227
fairy tales
119
Faizi
254
family
magazine/s
63
101
103
periodicals
288
328
professions
50
Faraizi
263
farces (prahasan)
41
135
283
284
delightful
46
Fatimid Egypt
261
Fazilatunnesa
258
Fazlar Rahman Khan
250
251
Fazlul Haq
350
female
characters in novels
155
curriculum/a
303
306
education
26
271
273
276
293
298
literacy
303
readers
288
313
readership
153
268
273
277
280
281
288
290
subordination
163
feminine
311
attributes
145
beauty
141
issues
295
reading spaces
277
virtues
298
and duties
269
‘feminine’ disposition
306
femininity
125
279
327
328
feminist/s
271
or indigenous
283
Ferozshah Bahmani
237
fiction
25
35
36
41
49
76
208
227
272
297
299
and essays
107
and poetry
185
and poetry, form of
228
based magazines
103
form
152
in its modern form
143
narratives
228
of India
143
reading
218
second category of
143
-writers
161
in Bengali literature
76
fictional
and theatrical narratives
239
and theatrical reconstructions
239
experiments of Tagore and Chattopadhyay
162
normalization
160
representations
144
financial
and social qualifications
113
provisions for English and regional vernaculars
113
Fine Art Printing Syndicate
205
Firdausi
254
first
Bengali literary endeavor (outside Bengal)
74
Bengali periodical
43
biographer (in Bengali) of the Prophet
236
epic work
243
generation of the English educated Bengalis
22
instances of Bengali prose
214
issue of Prabāsī
75
Karbala narrative
254
Muslim periodical
197
First World War
23
84
95
178
End of the
176
fitna
311
folk
ballads
107
genres
215
performances
139
‘foreign’
languages
220
Muslim power
243
foreign
cultural forms
127
import
144
145
Muslim rulers
234
form of the print media
74
formal
Bengali prose
209
education
108
114
268
291
language
224
literary Bengali
310
political principles
195
196
format
constantly evolving
12
paradoxical middling
12
formation of
a readership
192
the modern self
123
Francis Bacon
40
free intellect (mukta buddhi)
208
“free mind”
209
‘free press’, ardent advocate of
83
French
literature
65
sources
62
works
79
Freud
182
183
Freudian
concepts of the self
184
psychoanalysis
174
188
unconscious
186
criticism
190
the literary critic
151
functionally literate
112
fundamental
institutional support systems
38
producers of strī-svādhīnatā
295
question of Hindu-Muslim
194
social transformation
17
transformation of a society’s moral imagination
129
funds
for periodicals
69
from advertisements
69
Fyodor Dostoevsky
329
G.F. Watts
92
G.W.M. Reynolds
39
109
Gadā Mālekār Puthi
196
Gaganendranath Tagore
90
Galpa Cāriṭi (The Four Stories)
82
Galpaguccha
82
Gaṇavāṇī
257
Gandhi
27
95
306
333
337
338
341
346
348
354
358
Gandhi’s
call
343
for nonviolent non-cooperation
95
campaign
331
Non-Cooperation Movement
385
political philosophy
333
Gandhian
instruction on carkā
336
337
mass mobilization/mass political agitation/movements/nationalism
276
335
336
342
345
348
349
path
354
political philosophy
83
335
politics
272
principles
335
337
341
347
program of carkā
27
Gandhians
347
Gandhism
347
Ganesh Banerjee, Half artist
205
Garibaldi
237
343
gender
and communitarian divides
367
caste and communitarian divides
364
differentiation
294
divides
280
inequality
174
norms
139
153
275
sexuality and tradition, controversies of
21
general
education of the masses
57
educational progress of Musalmans in Bengal
218
knowledge essays
104
movement of the economy
97
pattern of public reading
116
readership
61
reading trends
40
genre/s
5
13
25
37
40
41
55
57
73
103
107
114
123
137
139
140
142
146
192
200
211
215
226
227
229
238
251
253
272
275
281
284
‘inward looking’
228
literary criticism
149
150
of history
233
of sāmaẏik or māsik sāhitya patrikā
35
prioritization of
36
sacitra māsik patrikā
85
genteel or sādhu form
66
George Elliot
39
Ghare Bāire (novel by Tagore)
66
154
174
187
346
Girindramohini Dasi
77
267
286
Girindrasekhar Bose, Dr.
174
182
183
Girishchandra Ghose
109
Girishchandra Sen (Girishbabu)
208
Gītā (Dwijendranath Tagore’s commentary)
79
Gītagovinda
137
Gladstone
343
Goethe
254
Gokulchandra Nag
70
174
175
Golam Mostafa
229
Golden Temple
75
Golebkāwālī
40
42
47
139
215
Gole-Hormuj
215
good homemaker or sugṝhiṇī
26
good reading habits
15
Gopal Haldar
125
Gopinath Saha
355
Gorā (novel by Tagore)
77
78
Gour
215
Government of India
30
136
372
385
Government of India Act 1935
83
Great Expectations
49
gṝhadharma
295
297
300
310
gṝhalakṣmī
270
278
284
295
gṝher bhāṣā of Bengal’s Muslims
221
Grierson’s 1903 Linguistic Survey
224
Grierson’s project, divisive potentials of
216
group of
formidable writers (śaktiśālī lekhak sampradāẏ)
207
periodical readership
192
theologian editors
201
urban culture
6
Guido Reni
92
Gulistān̐ (journal)
205
Gupta Dynasty
78
Gupta period
75
Guptakathā or ‘secret romance series’
283
Gurumukhi
32
Gyanendramohan Das
79
116
Gyanendramohan Das’s essays
79
Habermas
9
110
habitual
reader
115
reading
14
readings of diverse kinds
115
habituated readership
210
Hadith/Hadith Sharif
208
211
236
259
320
Hāfej
197
254
Half-tone
and colored prints
205
blocks
90
Hanafi School of Islamic Jurisprudence
200
Haraprasad Shastri
35
42
51
59
61
77
160
226
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
109
Hasan Basri, Mutazila followers of
260
Hātemtāi
40
215
Hazrat Muhāmmader Begonā Thākār Biṣaẏe Musalmān Moulavigaṇer Śikṣā
196
hegemony
113
114
346
347
348
359
‘Hellenic culture’
258
Hemantakumar Sarkar
355
Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay
43
46
59
60
228
247
254
Hemendranath Majumdar/Hemen Majumdar
72
91
94
Hemendranath Tagore
281
Hemendraprasad Ghosh
104
170
Hemnalini Basu
301
Henry Beverly
239
Henry Louise Vivian Derozio
39
heterogeneity
53
365
of the readership
110
heterogeneous
33
363
corpus of romances
215
public/s
64
149
reading culture in nineteenth-century
47
rural and semi-urban motley population
107
Heyyat Mamud, poet
254
Hibbert Journal
80
hierarchical
2
52
colonial education system
113
114
hierarchies of literacy or reading ability
24
high arts
9
12
92
94
139
aesthetics
62
105
high quality illustration
91
highbrow
9
aesthetic
97
107
aesthetics sensibility
95
literary periodicals
123
higher
age of consent
166
education
112
113
185
192
213
313
highly literate audience
84
Hindi
32
68
95
197
216
252
literary journal Sarasvātī
74
magazines
70
public sphere
84
149
speaking heartlands
80
women’s journal
277
Hindi-Persian verse tradition
215
Hindi-Urdu divide
191
Hindu
10
24
26
34
191
197
235
240
245
360
adults
111
and Brahmo
intelligentsia
210
218
223
317
students
208
writers
206
and Muslim
civilization
39
communities
207
empires
245
intellectuals
235
males and females
111
power in the subcontinent
245
publicists
231
readers
225
rural poor
215
and Muslims
207
authors and publishers
215
Bengali elite
50
Bengali women
284
Bhadramahila
338
civilization, ancient
39
conjugality
145
154
domesticity
153
154
169
173
dominated national history
236
elite/s
216
310
gentry
264
gentry’s monopoly
263
historians
233
historiography
230
232
233
history
231
household
104
-imageries
222
360
inhabitant
231
intellectuals
226
intelligentsia
214
223
352
interpretation of India’s history
231
literary sphere
25
195
majoritarian discourse
238
male/s
111
213
219
marriage
21
128
145
154
155
163
165
168
170
middle classes
98
219
364
monopoly over education
212
mythological tradition
358
mythology/ies
52
169
247
248
352
359
and legends
336
nation
163
252
nationalism
154
154
313
patriarchal
norms
161
structure
164
patriarchy
163
population, majority of the
235
public sphere
265
readership
241
320
religion (bhāb) and idolatry (pouttalikatā)
191
religious ideas
225
revivalist-nationalism
167
revivalists
173
rule in Bengal
238
society
159
163
266
tradition
24
128
129
132
132
wife’s satītva
144
women
270
313
writers
204
206
226
237
241
248
“Hindu awakening”
192
Hindu College
39
Hindu Mahasabha
194
Hindu-Brahmo
Bengali opinion
239
domination of the Bengali literary sphere
218
journals, mainstream
217
literary sphere
192
mainstream
217
Hinduism
128
145
240
305
redefined
21
Hinduized
225
histories
238
Hindu-Muslim
relations
83
relationship
194
Hindu-owned presses
205
(The) Hindus
4
50
192
194
197
213
217
219
221
228
232
235
238
239
241
246
251
257
308
309
311
and Muhammadans
200
and Muslims
195
197
207
211
221
historians of
print
23
print culture in India
31
the Book in India
32
historical
252
253
authenticity
251
epics
254
fiction
252
memory
244
moment
244
245
narratives
18
236
243
origins of caste
4
personalities, prominent
238
researches
68
110
scholarship/s
94
231
tradition (itibṝtta)
234
value
233
234
writings by the Hindus
233
historicity of Musalmani Bengali literary tradition
220
historicize reading
17
histories of
Bengal
233
classical Islam
241
early Islam
243
India and the Marathas
251
Islamicate cultures
243
printed book
23
the Bengal region
243
the Islamicate pasts
235
historiographical
debates
363
discourse
251
exercise/s
243
253
investigations
363
practice/s
232
234
242
history of
a quotidian practice
124
Islam
358
literary sphere
192
print in colonial India
71
the Bengali Muslim literary sphere
191
History of India
250
Hitabādī
26
286
home economics
44
Homer
254
Hossain, Prophet’s Grandson
253
household/s
5
8
11
13
17
44
46
57
75
94
101
104
107
117
119
120
122
123
131
145
152
155
163
165
213
267
269
275
276
281
284
288
290
291
293
295
297
301
304
308
309
320
324
333
338
341
363
chores
122
275
296
301
303
of women
73
commodity
14
womenfolk of the
14
housekeeping duties
298
human mind
182
245
344
Humayun Kabir
194
Hutom Pyān̐cār Nakśā
54
Hutomi style
54
55
Hybrid form of Bengali
54
Ibn Rushd
257
261
Ibrahim Gardi/Ibrahim Khan Gardi
244
248
251
Ibrahim Saber
324
Ibsen’s Doll’s House
154
illustrated
family magazine/miscellany
91
103
299
front covers
208
miscellany/miscellanies/monthlies/monthly miscellany/periodicals
23
27
46
62
63
65
70
71
73
90
91
95
100
103
125
127
305
miscellany Prabāsī, Ramananda Chattopadhyay’s
23
quality journal
95
illustrations and cartoons
205
Imam Hossain
254
255
‘immoral’ readings
152
‘immorality’
29
Imperial Library
30
119
371
Imperial Mughals
245
importance of public libraries
116
important spaces for circulation of periodicals
117
Iṃrejiwālā
42
indecency (aślīlatā)
247
independent thought (svādhīn cintā)
208
India
6
7
India Office Library
30
233
India’s
medieval past
233
Muslim rule
245
Indian
languages
68
philosophical tradition
182
press
30
Railways
34
readers
39
40
subcontinent
29
tradition of love
171
World
35
Indian Bradshaw
34
Indian Empire
134
Indian Muslims
220
245
246
251
253
254
258
320
Indian National Congress
11
65
194
341
350
354
Indian Press Act 1910
31
80
Indian Press of Chintamani Ghosh
74
‘Indian-style’ paintings
94
indigenous
95
alternative to colonial idea of education
51
bilingual intelligentsia/educated elite/literati
33
39
41
68
106
113
114
123
130
131
134
135
140
209
230
303
domesticity
141
educational alternative
53
middle classes
118
125
365
modes of communication
53
modes (upāẏ) of interactions
52
population
50
97
113
114
social
groups
108
norms
144
158
relations
144
structures
163
society
53
114
136
141
158
159
357
Swadeshi enterprise
279
tradition
9
176
Unitarian Brahmo
132
value system
144
indigenously populated parts of urban Calcutta
116
Indirā
49
individual/s (byakti)
2
16
buyer-reader (kretā-pāṭhak)
23
107
reading
16
Indo-Aryan Family
216
Indologists
234
Indo-Persian
32
Indo-Persianate culture
234
institutions
liberal political and cultural
8
of commercial publishing
46
of higher education
113
intellectuals
10
11
19
26
37
44
49
55
60
67
77
79
154
154
165
191
195
210
212
216
219
220
226
235
257
259
260
264
355
360
Islam
25
195
196
200
207
208
233
235
241
242
249
253
255
257
259
261
264
265
311
317
318
337
influence of
207
Islām Darśan
201
Islām Pracārak
200
200
209
210
227
Islam’s
history, triumphalist moments
236
past
241
Islamabadi
259
Islāmi Bāṅglā
217
Islami Bengali
215
216
Islāmi bhāṣā
215
Islamic
beliefs
200
225
Bengali (Islāmi Bāṅglā)
209
-Bengali puthi ballads
192
Bengali puthi texts
248
community
243
concepts
225
360
cultural tradition
243
history
241
unfolding of
26
Jurisprudence
200
languages
221
laws
259
philosophical tradition
257
pietism
242
piety
25
192
195
224
230
253
257
263
265
conventional norms of
25
principles
229
235
248
262
regimes in South Asia
233
religious sect
200
revivalist movements
215
tamaddun
241
tradition
314
327
359
universalism
257
‘Islamic past’
25
authentic
25
Islamicate
civilizations
242
cultures
241
histories of the Indian subcontinent
233
interlude
231
242
past/s
232
233
235
societies of West Asia
19
states, previous
235
world
241
Islamicization
215
257
Islamicized Bengali
215
‘islamicized’ nasihat-namahs
215
Islamiya Art Press
205
Islamization
314
Ismail Hossain Siraji
210
227
253
253
254
issues of Islamicization of Bengal
239
Iswar Gupta
54
137
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
44
116
135
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar’s Sītār Banabās
42
Jadunath Sarkar
18
78
84
85
207
236
252
Jagadananda Ray
61
78
Jagadish Chandra Bose
75
78
Jaladhar Sen
62
65
91
96
108
176
206
341
Jāmāi Bārik
41
James Browne
249
250
James Grant Duff
249
James Long, Reverend
32
110
134
197
James Tod
237
Janaki Majumdar
274
Jaṅgnāmā (on the battle of Karbala)
254
Jankoji Shinde
244
jārigān
254
Jasimuddin
10
229
Jāti
4
5
5
214
241
idea of
5
sense of
5
Jatindramohan Bagchi
77
108
Jatindramohan Sinha
131
155
156
159
172
187
228
jātīẏa jīban (nation’s life/life of the nation)
1
5
7
17
22
28
37
125
126
149
150
190
217
jātīẏa jībaner niẏāmak
151
jātīẏatā (nationhood)
11
jātrā (mobile theatres)
122
137
jautha-paribār (joint family system)
161
jhumur
135
Jibanananda Das
10
Jībansmṝti
44
120
122
jiziya
235
John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress
40
109
Jorasanko
181
205
Jorasanko residence
1
148
188
281
journal/s
2
7
12
17
19
20
28
30
34
35
37
43
45
51
52
55
57
60
63
65
66
68
69
74
75
77
78
82
91
93
95
96
98
100
103
108
114
118
124
126
133
143
152
154
165
181
182
184
197
200
205
210
224
247
256
264
272
273
277
280
283
287
288
290
291
295
297
299
302
305
315
317
321
323
330
331
350
351
356
365
367
journalistic
courtesy
265
innovation
204
literature
36
medium/a
12
313
journals of various caste groups
19
Jurgen Habermas
6
Jyotirindranath Tagore
62
77
78
108
Jyotiriṅgan (journal)
34
Jyotirmoyee Devi
72
123
285
286
Jyotirmoyee Ganguly
267
Kabir Feserār Kecchā (Tale of Kabir Feserā)
196
kabiẏāl duels
135
Kaderiya (believers in human ability and agency)
260
Kaekobad
25
229
243
245
248
249
255
Kaekobad’s
Majhābī Śikṣā
247
un-Islamic aesthetic
247
kafer (non-believer)
206
249
360
kafer fatowā
262
265
Kali (mother Goddess)
166
241
Kali temple in Dakshineshwar
104
Kalidasa
172
254
Kalidasa’s Kumārasambhāva
172
286
Kalighat paṭ
93
Kāli-kalam (journal)
175
179
185
186
205
Kaliprasanna Sinha
43
54
68
Kaliyug (the dark age)
104
120
130
165
Kallol (journal)
1
11
16
49
60
64
70
96
133
174
179
182
184
186
188
204
354
365
367
Kallol yug
76
204
Kalpakathā
109
Kamalākānter Daptar, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s
5
141
47
49
Kāmasūtra, review of
167
168
Kāminī-Kāñcan dyad
84
164
166
Kānākaṛi Prahasan (Baṭtalā farce)
285
Kant
129
Kantibabu (Kantichandra Ghosh)
208
Karachi
350
Karbala
254
255
battle of
253
narratives
254
tragedy
253
Karimunnesa Chaudhurani
201
Karimunnesa Khanum
324
Kashiprasad Ghosh
39
Kasimbazar
68
106
Kāśīnāth
160
Kāśirāmdās’s Mahābhārata
42
284
kaṣṭipāthar
63
80
Kasturbabai Gandhi
267
kathak ṭhākur
52
Kavitā (journal)
175
179
181
Kāẏastha (journal)
114
Kāẏastha Patrikā (journal)
20
56
Kazi Abdul Wadud
211
217
220
222
256
257
Kazi Anwarul Qadir
256
Kazi Motahar Hossain
256
Kazi Nazrul Islam/Nazrul Islam
27
64
185
229
257
265
325
326
330
331
350
Kecchā
196
215
Kecchā Bhagabān Bhūt (The Tale of the Ghost Lord)
196
Keeper of the Catalogues
30
47
Keshab Chandra Sen
136
293
Keshabchandra Gupta’s serial essays
233
Khan Bahadur Nasiruddin Ahmad
258
262
Khan Panni zamindars of Karatiya
201
khemṭa
135
Khilafat-Non-cooperation Movement
27
220
288
306
329
332
335
337
341
242
351
355
khulafa-i-rashidin
262
ki majār śaṇibār (Baṭtalā farce)
46
knowledge
17
19
32
36
50
51
43
68
77
80
104
106
138
160
183
184
209
211
212
218
238
256
256
261
269
297
304
305
307
314
326
343
361
365
Kohinūr (journal)
197
200
201
206
210
294
367
Kohinūr (Nabaparyyāẏ) (journal)
194
207
221
223
228
233
Koran
207
208
239
254
259
318
318
320
translations of the
34
Koran Sharif
236
Koran-Hadith
211
Koranic
injunctions
318
learning
318
precepts
207
318
principles
26
201
scriptures
260
kretā-pāṭhak
24
Krishak Praja Party
350
Krishnakamal Mukhopadhyay
43
Krittibas
254
Kṝṣṇacaritra, discourse on Krishna
137
Kṝttivās Rāmāẏaṇa
42
284
kṣanik sāhitya (momentary literature)
11
Kuntalin Press
75
90
Kutchnama or Tawarikh-e Sindh
234
1916 Lucknow Pact
191
Laboring poor
53
68
179
Laharī (journal)
200
Lailā-Majnun/Lailā-Majnu
40
42
215
227
248
Lalbehari Dey
49
Laṅgal (journal)
175
257
331
356
367
language
debates
25
217
218
-Mother (Baṅgabhāṣā)
191
Musalmāni puthi
209
of communication for Indian Muslims (āntarjanīn bhāṣā)
220
question
192
217
222
the scriptures (dharma bhāṣā)
219
leisure (abasar/abasar samaẏ)
8
14
17
22
106
107
120
123
125
208
279
281
283
291
293
294
296
328
lekhakgoṣṭhī
60
Leslie Stephens
151
liberal
2
159
174
212
220
230
251
261
264
312
315
317
and progressive politics
346
appreciation of history
232
consciousness (udār citta)
1
democratic possibilities
265
literary sphere
84
348
minded journal
224
minded periodicals
164
-minded reviewers
161
Muslim intellectuals
219
political and cultural institutions
8
10
political traditions
349
principles
7
128
257
of democracy
242
of literary practice
114
progressive ideals
260
public sphere
130
publicists
26
publicists’ concern
263
reformers
270
362
-reformist discourses
302
reformists
154
tradition of modern European thought
2
trained in literary criticism
229
values
6
231
Librarian of Bengal Library
30
35
Library Catalogues
31
32
32
33
34
37
111
150
196
197
210
216
299
linguistic
and literary kinship, bonds of
5
hierarchies
53
105
108
origin
5
practices
53
281
364
365
styles
42
54
215
techniques
67
literacy
6
8
14
23
24
37
63
68
97
105
107
109
110
112
115
126
130
148
149
177
200
212
302
and political activism
298
female
284
287
303
levels of
14
237
universal
57
literary
agenda
46
55
277
360
and social thought
19
Bengali
197
257
310
categories
158
communications
widening contours
23
community
16
96
113
300
conference in Rajshahi
3
criticism (sāhitya samālocanā)
13
24
126
130
132
143
145
146
148
151
187
229
240
critics
15
24
64
145
155
160
300
culture (sāhitya samāj)
3
5
9
10
12
24
25
36
54
107
121
178
192
195
210
215
217
227
234
268
300
314
emergent
25
formative moments of
10
in Bengal, modern
5
of puthi
216
debates
8
15
129
147
153
159
177
181
366
discourse/s
17
24
26
129
130
education
38
39
experimentation/s
23
24
45
128
131
133
162
175
fellowship
105
field (sāhitya kṣetra)
8
25
36
57
67
104
147
149
153
188
266
311
350
form/s
9
36
55
146
149
174
197
276
genres
5
13
25
37
55
56
56
57
140
192
211
238
251
253
272
284
journalism
29
36
57
63
70
74
92
268
277
298
299
journals
20
34
83
103
124
221
283
284
330. See also sāhitya patrikā
kinship
5
market/marketplace
23
39
74
97
103
118
133
140
142
147
284
media
23
miscellanies
12
31
43
55
56
100
109
155
158
284
357
monthly/ies
28
35
42
43
55
129
137
138
147
153
182
204
267
obscenity
132
periodical/s (sāhitya patrikā)
vii
5
7
13
15
17
19
22
23
29
34
37
43
44
46
49
56
57
61
62
69
70
73
84
103
104
106
108
113
114
117
121
125
127
138
140
146
149
152
196
197
201
204
207
209
211
219
256
266
268
276
280
286
290
301
317
330
332
362
364
367
permissibility
131
145
170
174
186
268
366
practice/s
8
12
39
61
63
96
114
121
146
149
175
179
194
208
223
300
366
367
production
13
29
32
65
68
133
149
237
297
319
362
365
public
1
3
5
9
10
15
20
22
53
64
68
80
85
96
105
113
132
133
145
147
273
302
312
326
356
362
public sphere
3
5
9
10
15
20
22
28
53
67
68
85
105
132
133
145
147
267
273
312
326
356
362
in Bengal
22
publications
57
publicists
4
22
133
146
263
publicity
319
355
representations
133
174
177
sense
130
149
sensibilities
51
96
130
216
societies
2
7
space
10
19
sphere
3
4
7
10
11
14
16
19
20
22
24
27
53
56
57
59
63
65
67
71
84
106
107
109
113
115
125
126
128
129
131
148
151
177
186
187
190
192
194
195
196
197
201
208
211
213
217
218
222
224
225
227
229
232
247
254
257
265
266
268
298
306
314
321
325
326
328
330
333
335
348
349
362
365
366
studies
38
39
system
68
115
tastes
9
40
46
59
66
77
115
130
137
150
277
301
367
tradition of jaṅgnāmā and jārigān
254
traditions
5
32
36
54
195
248
311
329
non-modern
5
vulgarity
131
works
13
137
152
208
229
244
248
264
world of Bengal
7
(The) literary Digest
80
literate
audience
37
84
110
111
Hindu males
213
populations
7
108
Literature (sāhitya)
1
3
5
8
10
18
30
37
39
45
46
49
53
59
61
63
66
73
80
85
96
105
112
122
125
126
129
130
133
139
140
145
146
148
150
152
155
156
158
167
170
173
177
179
180
183
187
189
194
208
216
227
256
266
281
282
307
329
330
342
353
356
361
363
365
367
and the periodical medium
18
capacity of
15
124
educational
40
foreign
109
journalistic
361
modern
5
13
37
128
153
159
162
211
momentary
11
periodical
108
132
production of
67
readable
44
148
reading
106
152
western
67
lithographic prints
40
lokalakṣmī, Bengali name for ‘public’
1
Lor Candrāṇī
215
love and courtship
128
170
lower classes
50
174
lower middle-class groups
42
51
Lutfar Rahman
221
lyrical
ballad
21
132
160
169
247
356
poetry
13
25
57
Macaulayan education
51
Macbeth
109
madhyabitta
67
99
118
122
147
364
367
magazine form
dialogic structure of the
20
vernacular
52
magazines
12
91
97
103
121
children’s
101
family
63
illustrated
90
international
80
literary
49
newer
104
one of the earliest
44
pedagogical
34
two-penny
72
Victorian
49
Mahābhārat
40
42
169
184
326
Maharram-parba (Maharram Episode)
254
Mahāśmaśān Kābya/Mahāśmaśān
25
243
245
249
251
253
255
Mahatma
344. See also Ga
Mahendranath Gupta
165
Mahilā (journal)
69
101
210
288
290
297
317
Mahilā Jagat
325
Mahilā Majlis
101
103
288
309
Mahilā Mehfil
302
Mahilā Saogāt (journal)
325
Mahmud’s destruction of temples
234
Mahmuda Khatun Siddiqua
323
324
326
mainstream
19
95
293
303
332
anticolonial nationalism
27
Bengali
literature
133
176
poetics
173
counterpart
192
critique of the
25
‘Hindu’
counterpart
191
literary sphere
195
Hindu-Brahmo
217
journals
210
Hindu-Brahmo
217
women’s
317
literary
production (Hindu)
227
sensibility
118
literary sphere
24
25
126
195
197
247
Bengali
227
literature
194
miscellanies
175
illustrated
335
nationalism
348
nationalist māsik patrikā
126
periodicals
27
194
197
218
231
233
public sphere (predominantly Hindu)
265
readership (mostly Hindu)
241
writers
176
Hindu and Brahmo
206
major
12
14
23
35
60
66
80
98
100
108
126
135
141
148
169
173
177
205
218
238
363
administrative organs
134
Bengali Intellectuals
77
debates
25
economic losses
333
essays
92
illustrated periodicals
65
literary periodicals
332
metropolitan publishers
40
narrative forms
143
novels by Rabindranath Tagore
156
print forms
5
social transformation
12
twentieth-century literary magazines
49
writers
153
majoritarian
239
244
collective identity
253
discourse
241
Hindu
238
nationalist
231
understanding of the past
238
majoritarianism
313
majority
23
31
37
49
50
55
64
68
108
109
113
114
120
175
190
192
208
210
212
213
217
218
220
221
223
225
231
235
237
240
262
264
265
267
272
296
335
358
364
demographic
211
241
Malik Muhammad Jaysi
215
Manchester Textiles
332
343
Manilal Gangopadhyay
77
109
Manindrabhusan Gupta, art critic
72
Manish Ghatak
185
Manmatha Nath Rudra
35
Manorama Devi
75
Manu, the ancient law giver
167
Mao’s reading of Marx
362
Marathas
244
245
249
251
Marathi Bakhar histories
245
marginal social groups
41
52
57
175
marginalization
52
57
281
Marie Corelli
39
Marion Crawford
39
market
8
21
36
62
65
69
110
116
140
192
264
270
275
311
335
and bureaucracy
2
Baṭtalā
22
53
Bengali Muslim literary periodical
196
book
56
commercial
149
commercializing
71
creativity to
67
domestic
31
70
73
339
for used periodicals
15
global
212
literary
23
39
97
133
142
vernacular
142
periodicals
29
37
64
70
75
103
111
115
print
68
public
118
-sensitive publishing house
104
sub continental
40
Swadeshi
340
Swadeshi literary
284
technology
95
vernacular print
40
Marx’s reading of Hegel
362
Māsik Basumatī (journal)
9
23
27
46
62
64
70
85
91
94
96
103
105
126
165
166
182
218
288
297
Māsik Mohāmmadī (journal)
96
194
198
199
211
213
214
221
222
223
236
258
265
320
321
321
352
352
360
māsik patrikā (monthly/ies)
13
21
23
28
29
31
33
35
37
39
41
43
45
47
49
51
53
55
57
59
61
63
65
67
69
71
75
77
79
81
83
85
87
89
91
93
95
97
99
101
103
105
107
109
111
113
115
117
118
121
123
125
126
142
280
māsik sāhitya patrikā (monthly literary periodical)
35
56
mass education (lokaśikṣā)
7
52
modern mode of
22
Mathew Arnold
146
151
173
Maulana Akram Khan
210
214
Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
314
Maulana Maniruzzaman Islamabadi
210
Maulana Shibli Numani
232
Maulavi Emdad-ul Haq
207
Maulavi Khondkar Anwar Ali
207
Maulavi Mohammad Naimuddin
197
Maulavi Syed Emdad Ali
207
Maulavi Syed Nawab Ali Chaudhuri
207
Maupassant, Guy de
108
May Fourth era
309
medical and science journals
56
Meghadūtam, Kalidasa’s
172
Meghnādbadh Kābya
247
memoir
43
45
78
105
122
204
285
286
Michael Madhusudan Dutta
39
42
43
253
254
286
‘middlebrow literature’
9
middle-class
agency
367
art-public
92
audience
164
behavior
290
Bengalis/Bengali homes
14
106
282
bhadralok households
268
bhadralok life in colonial Bengal
124
bhadralok readership
174
bhadramahila
286
301
312
318
daily lives of the
14
definitions of domesticity
275
domesticity
300
310
and sociability
17
educated Bengali Muslims
311
families
293
Bengali
309
groups
42
51
362
homemakers
275
277
homes
19
21
22
73
94
123
192
273
educated
14
presence of periodicals in
17
household/s
17
94
163
276
363
in Bengal
165
patterns of consumption and entertainment
14
relationships within
5
identity
123
in Bengal
21
literary tastes
367
literate audience
37
lives
6
11
12
14
163
365
key indicator of
14
male
chastity
127
intelligentsia
319
men
153
and women
122
Muslim Women
314
Bengali
319
nationalist discourse
288
290
non-elite
14
people
15
340
reader/s
13
16
19
70
100
140
177
340
364
audience
133
readership/s
93
94
275
330
specific needs and tastes of a
13
reading public
367
sections among Bengal’s Muslims 24
segment among Bengal’s Muslims
126
sentiments
128
women
268
273
275
287
Hindu
270
married
313
women’s
entry into the professional work
278
lives
268
participation in professional workforce
306
middleclassness (madhyabittatā)
364
367
Mihir (journal)
187
227
229
“(the) Mirror of Bengal”
47
Miscellaneous
20
30
37
196
197
279
books and periodicals
35
family periodicals
288
literary
journals
34
43
periodicals
37
62
periodicals
31
34
35
317
330
poetry
32
print
35
missionaries
33
43
134
135
136
201
232
269
303
modern
46
106
255
art
forms
92
indigenous
95
Bengal
168
citizenship
2
‘civil social institutions’
6
9
concept of love and conjugality
158
culturalism
229
culture
50
conceptualization of a
50
domesticity
282
290
education
49
53
230
318
educational setup
3
emotion of prem
182
European
novelistic tradition
140
thought
2
form/s of
communications
1
literary sociability
2
175
print
140
reading
140
social life
17
French literature
173
genres
57
114
historiographical practices
232
Indian art
92
indigenous culture
50
need for a
7
Islamic world
243
journals
96
literariness
7
57
196
literary
aesthetics
ordinariness in
14
Bengali
257
culture
54
192
in Bengal
5
discourse
142
form
197
genres
5
13
56
107
140
211
language
223
public
96
sensibilities
51
107
130
sphere
47
53
107
211
213
217
218
222
literature
2
13
37
128
150
153
159
162
176
211
in the Bengali language
13
principal culture of
37
reception of
13
middle-class/classes’ private lives
17
configuration of
14
mode of mass education
22
Musalmānī
Bāṅglā
222
Bengali
214
217
Muslim middle-classes
255
nation
268
270
national literary public
105
nationalist art
94
nation-state
2
creation of a
2
notions of love
154
novelist
14
participatory reading culture
5
political
forms
4
leadership
3
politics
3
principles of association
2
print media
192
professional women
275
public
life
2
73
sphere
73
114
223
265
rational learning
51
readers (ādhunik pāṭhak)
11
readers’ inability
12
readership
255
romantic love
162
aesthetics of
162
scientific research
189
sense of ethical social life
14
social and domestic fiction
47
society/ies
166
349
standardized Bengali prose
214
state
2
134
235
331
348
349
and nationalism
330
apparatus, emergence of
6
times
121
163
165
characteristic feature of the
6
Turkey
262
vernacular
literary canons
139
prose
254
West
129
158
western literary genres
indigenous adaptations of
13
modern Bengali
34
60
214
aesthetic values
189
appropriate for Bengal’s Muslims
25
culture
158
fiction
158
literariness
22
prime formative phase
22
Muslim literary sphere
192
poets
46
prose
222
public sphere
28
speaking Muslims
252
modern India
37
Modern Review (journal)
35
84
92
modernism
129
131
179
180
colonial
177
European
177
literary
133
189
modernist literature
174
176
183
187
189
modernists
15
174
176
180
181
184
185
188
189
modernity (ādhunikatā)
6
7
9
116
121
129
130
133
163
177
181
229
254
colonial
10
18
120
195
216
231
colonized middle-classes’ encounter with
14
dilemmas of
3
dilemmas with
329
distinctive feature of
13
experiences of
140
features of
14
238
ideas of
327
literary
139
180
political
11
primary communicative mode
7
urban
175
modernize
68
modernized
273
modernizing
270
363
agenda
327
agent
22
Bengali Language
55
Musalmānī Bāṅglā
360
project
269
Mohammad Barkatulla
259
Mohammad Habibur Rahman
229
Mohammad K. Chand
226
Mohammad Lutfar Rahman
211
220
221
Mohammad Nasiruddin
16
200
204
265
Mohammad Qazem Al Qureshi (Kaekobad)
243
Mohammad Reyazuddin Ahmad
247
Mohammad Wajed Ali
191
248
364
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
332. See also Ga
Monomohan Basu’s Madhyastha (journal)
68
Montessori methods
303
monthlies
8
12
12
43
73
74
82
Bengali-Muslim
96
illustrated
71
76
literary
35
55
147
153
267
women’s
297
monthly
34
36
47
56
70
72
73
96
99
127
133
142
147
154
158
159
192
196
228
243
291
321
325
327
340
English
84
illustrated
46
65
journal
28
44
100
Maulavi Mohammad Naimuddin’s
197
literary
30
42
43
137
204
210
moral
4
5
16
26
30
37
39
67
129
131
135
139
140
142
143
146
151
152
154
162
164
167
171
172
174
175
184
185
187
214
228
229
247
272
279
313
317
318
burden
153
codes
141
173
degeneration
147
education
228
pedagogy
14
social order
1
168
universe
253
morality
124
127
130
132
135
136
139
144
146
148
152
153
161
162
172
244
272
287
294
299
300
305
Moslem Bhārat (journal)
96
201
205
229
230
317
350
351
mother language (mātṝbhāṣā)
8
45
214
218
220
motherland
28
Munshi Meherulla
210
‘Musalmani Bengali’
34
books
33
Muslim
publicists
25
192
214
218
220
223
225
rulers
234
239
242
umma
242
women
26
206
240
257
258
258
278
312
312
313
315
317
318
319
321
323
325
327
328
354
women writers
319
323
325
327
354
writers
204
207
209
218
222
233
238
Muslim and Hindu elites
310
Muslim journals
197
231
360
Muslim literary periodicals
19
196
197
219
317
Muslim reader
210
218
227
248
Muslim readership
209
Mustafa Kemal Pasha
329
Mutiny
29
134
Muzaffar Ahmad
220
221
331
350
355
356
mythological paintings
92
94
mythological themes
40
Nabanūr (journal)
201
206
207
210
229
234
242
243
247
249
250
259
317
Nabanūr critic
250
Nabaparyyāẏ Baṅgadarśan (journal)
22
57
62
63
76
83
Nabaparyyāẏ Saogāt (journal)
229
256
Nabaśakti (journal)
26
Nabi
254
Nabinchandra Sen
45
46
59
122
Nabyabhārat (journal)
15
22
35
55
61
63
76
103
117
160
286
Nagendrabala Saraswati
79
295
Namāj Śikṣā
196
Nandalal Bose
90
Naoroz (journal)
360
Napoleon
237
Nārāẏaṇ (journal)
15
49
70
95
103
154
159
160
350
Nārāẏaṇ’s admiration of Nazrul’s poem
350
Narendrababu (Narendra Deb)
208
narrative/s of
alternative readership
192
Bengali literature
18
cultural refinement
162
nationalism, dominant
15
nasihat-nāmāh
215
Nasiruddin
200
201
205
206
208
209
213
265
325. See also Mohammad Nasiruddi
Nasiruddin’s compendium
204
Naṣṭa-Nīr (short story by Rabindranath Tagore)
154
nation
1
2
5
26
96
formation, duress of
9
nation’s life (jātīẏa jīban)
150
national
and communal politics
196
community
4
75
344
education
51
movements
9
-popular domain
11
self-sufficiency, spinning as means of
27
thought
200
‘national history’
229
235
242
243
National Magazine
35
Nationalism (Lecture by Rabindranath Tagore)
330
nationalism
1
9
15
21
26
27
95
106
111
114
128
130
132
154
158
167
262
268
275
288
294
313
329
330
336
341
342
345
348
349
nationalism’s
assertion of sovereignty
111
confrontation with colonialism
114
cultural politics
9
pedagogic mission
1
nationalist
agenda
149
agitation
15
concerns
36
discourse
25
50
155
363
elite
131
histories
25
ideology
93
imagining of the nation
313
intelligentsia
150
leader
14
leadership
8
literati
146
modernity
6
movement
8
27
periodical
168
political mobilizations, period of
11
project
139
public opinion, primary producers of
26
publicists
107
‘Nationalist Hindu’
191
Nationalist School
85
nationalist school of art
92
nationalist-reformist strategy of indigenous men
267
nationalists
27
“nationalized” Hindu tradition
24
nationhood
3
9
bases of
3
constructive relationship
11
multiple imaginings of
10
nation-mother
240
nation-state, future
8
native
colonized subject
39
mind
39
press
29
speakers of Bengali
5
youth
43
Nature or prākṝti
181
Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani
201
Nawab of Awadh
244
Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur
201
Nazrul Islam. See Kazi Nazrul Islam
Nazrul Islam’s
Mādhabī Pralāp
185
poetic rebellion
27
networks of interactions
15
new
aesthetic
92
in literary experimentation
133
aesthetics of romantic love
131
alphabets in Bengali
25
Bengal School of painting
93
discourse of tastes and morality
124
educational institutions
120
field of circulation
37
form of education
53
form of love
142
forms of social bonding
362
genre of
gārhasthya upanyās or domestic novel
142
sāhitya patrikā
14
intelligentsia
217
language form
51
literary
culture
194
195
experimentation
128
genres
37
innovations
16
modern art
46
periodical
44
sensibility
46
sphere
28
tastes 66
venture
55
literature
217
middle-class readership
92
notion of emotional love
144
patriarchy
294
periodicals
104
125
126
political society
11
public media
57
readers
121
school of art
93
social and moral orders
4
social ethic of individuality
162
social life
14
15
social order (nutan samāj)
3
social spaces
28
society
3
131
vernacular fiction
140
vocabulary
225
“new Baṭtalā sāhitya”
41
“new spirit”
36
newly urban
40
“Newspaper”
31
newspaper
6
11
12
14
26
media
12
reportage
19
Nikhilnath Roy
78
nineteenth century
67
68
Bengal
227
Islamic revivalist movement
215
periodicals
17
18
103
104
social reforms
15
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
351
Nivedita
92
non-bourgeois social groups
6
non-cooperation
27
non-elite middle-class reader
14
15
non-literacy
23
57
non-literate (populations)
7
22
23
57
114
224
social groups
41
non-mainstream language
19
non-Muslim periodical
196
non-polarized society
195
nonviolent non-cooperation, Gandhi’s call for
95
non-Western
modern intellectual tradition
19
nations
19
normative
codes, emerging
41
ideals
16
public sphere
notion of the
17
‘reader’
16
norms of
decency
145
wifely chastity
21
notion of
education
8
indigenous conjugality
145
the kretā-pāṭhak
107
notions of
domesticity
5
society
3
‘vulgarity’ and ‘decency’
142
novel
13
24
novelistic genre
153
161
Nripen
354. See also Nripe
Nripendranath Chattopadhyay
1
175
“numerous less-able writers”
29
Nūr
201
Nurunnessa Khatun
324
obituaries
35
of prominent personalities
83
“objectionable” and “actionable”, poem ‘Bidrohī’, identified by Librarian of the Bengal Library
352
objective of sāhitya sebā
97
objectives of epics (mahākābya)
254
obscene
21
51
52
57
115
135
167
170
170
books
134
136
obscenity (aślīlatā)
24
25
126
127
129
134
136
137
149
174
176
constructions of
182
186
debates on
153
158
161
occasional
essays
302
readers of periodicals
117
official
archives
274
language (rāj bhāṣā)
220
stance on Muslim students
220
offset litho process in the 1930s
90
old
Islamic order
242
order, call for subversion of the
359
“old patriarchy”
302
Omar Ali or Sultan Saladin
237
Omar Khayyam (Khayyam’s works)
208
“openness of periodical”
13
opposition
between reason (tauhid) and conformism (taqlid)
261
to novel reading
143
oral
folkloric traditions
7
transmission of literary texts
111
oral-aural reception
57
ordered carnality (dharmārtha kām)
167
ordinary
Bengali readers
92
Hindu readers
210
householder/s
8
46
housewife
105
individuals
140
madhyabitta household
122
middle-class
homemakers
275
lives in Bengal
21
people
15
340
reader/s
100
330
social life of
15
middle-classes
92
people (sādhāran)
3
reader/s (sādhāran pāṭhak)
9
14
17
20
115
228
280
voices of
340
writers
157
organic
analogies of society
156
body
137
organizing of periodical publishing
16
69
Orientalist
173
231
scholars
39
232
orthodox
167
258
315
critics
152
161
Hindu “tradition of her family”
299
journals
95
mollahs
205
patriarchy
318
principles
167
publicists
24
160
162
167
segment of the clergy
260
sensibilities
159
text (samarpitadi pl. check, this entry will be omitted)
orthodoxies of
literary theory
10
modern political formations
345
orthodoxy’s
denigration of liberal progressive ideals as un-Islamic
260
furor over Ghare Bāire and Strīr Patra
154
stand on democracy
131
132
‘other’
constructed
138
of the conscious rational self
174
Outlook
80
overload of fiction in the periodical market
64
1937 provincial elections
83
pahari miniature paintings
90
Paikpara Zamindars Association Library
116
Pallīsamāj
169
pamphlets
12
26
84
Panipat
243
third battle of
243
Paṭaldāṅgār Pān̐cāli
185
pāṭhak samāj
24
107. See also reader society
Pather Dābī
36
patriarchy
21
154
160
163
269
270
275
278
282
294
297
298
311
314
315
318
320
325
327
354
patrikā
12
63
323
patriotism
26
271
331
339
343
345
347
360
Penny Magazine
72
91
periodical/s
5
9
12
14
17
20
23
26
27
37
57
69
72
97
100
117
Bengali Muslim
18
20
24
70
126
182
196
197
200
201
207
208
210
217
223
224
229
231
233
265
314
317
literary
13
15
22
34
37
43
44
49
61
62
70
73
84
104
106
107
113
117
123
127
138
140
146
149
152
196
197
201
204
207
209
211
219
267
268
273
276
280
286
290
301
317
330
332
362
364
367
market
23
29
37
56
64
72
73
107
113
126
in Bengal
75
media
56
130
139
230
production
35
37
publishing
7
16
22
73
96
87
112
140
192
201
204
205
266
readers
16
108
147
231
330
readership
108
112
117
192
reading
12
14
16
26
123
125
uni-lingual
33
women’s
25
26
69
268
273
275
278
282
287
288
290
295
308
309
317
328
periodical/s archive/s
18
19
29
31
periodical press
12
15
16
26
45
84
94
95
231
246
297
336
Persian
32
Perso-Arabic tales
34
Perso-Arabic tradition
319
Perso-Arabic vocabulary
222
Pilgrims’ Progress
40
political activism
8
10
27
62
271
272
292
306
310
330
and constitutional ideologies
10
leaders (netṝbṝnda)
3
life, committed to
8
literariness
26
mobilization
2
process of
4
modernity, fulfillment of
11
organizations
4
phenomenon (the ultraright)
10
societies
11
polygamy
145
271
298
315
popular
commodity
14
culture
130
143
154
anarchic form of
143
dramas
40
education
51
genres
57
137
139
146
215
popularity of romances
40
post-War years
67
98
147
174
177
181
205
367
Prabartak (journal)
336
Prabāsī (journal)
9
15
23
27
35
49
62
65
70
72
78
82
86
100
103
104
106
108
110
112
116
118
123
125
126
165
182
191
196
204
205
211
218
226
237
242
286
288
305
308
309
329
335
337
Prabāsī Bāṅgālī (Expatriate Bengalis)
79
Prabāsī editor
64
78
82
83
93
98
99
101
112
117
118
176
237
308
337
339. See also Rama
Prabāsī office
100
Prabāsī Press
90
Prabhabati Devi Saraswati
73
Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay
77
77
176
Pracār (journal)
15
223
Pracārak (journal)
196
197
200
201
209
210
227
Pradīp (journal)
69
91
Prafulla Chandra Ray
78
173
345
Prajnasundari Devi
281
prakṝti, poetic rendering of
181
183
Pramatha Chaudhuri
12
16
28
29
63
65
70
77
96
151
169
172
173
195
224
266
337
Prayag (Allahabad)
74
prem (love)
155
162
170
174
182
186
228
277
343
premarital
21
247
courtship
21
romance and courtship, celebration of
21
Premendra Mitra
175
175
370
premodern
4
7
22
25
57
107
128
140
141
162
192
196
214
Bengali, linguistic formations of
25
channels of communication
7
community identities (Gemeinschaft)
4
networks of communication
22
Vaishnava religious poetry
128
Presidency College
185
press censorship
84
primary education
22
25
37
111
112
113
213
287
303
318
print
domain of
14
forms
12
genre
29
media
6
7
evidences of
10
medium
5
production
14
23
31
35
107
print culture
advanced phase of
2
print cultures in Bengal
5
printed
books
12
form
12
printing press/es
6
25
29
65
66
206
226
370
printing technology
90
private
citizens
6
individuals
2
retreat of the home
16
space
5
niche of
14
private and public
13
17
19
73
223
aspects of reading
17
domains
19
spaces
25
private-public binary
6
sedimentation of a
6
professional writers
63
professionalization
21
22
29
63
64
122
of authorial conduct
64
of literary journalism
29
Prophet
26
236
253
255
262
314
320
psychoanalysis (manabikalan)
131
174
176
178
182
183
188
189
public
1
11
13
15
17
23
25
26
28
31
33
35
37
40
43
53
55
57
61
63
65
67
68
70
72
73
80
82
85
92
96
105
107
109
111
113
114
116
118
124
128
130
133
145
151
153
156
161
167
168
173
175
185
187
189
218
222
223
227
228
231
237
243
248
253
255
265
267
270
272
274
277
281
283
285
287
297
300
302
304
306
307
310
315
319
323
325
327
330
336
339
341
354
356
362
364
367
consensus
gradual builders of
15
culture
24
dialogues
20
discourse/s
quality of
8
on culture
8
discussion
6
domain
4
interest
21
specific periods of boom in
12
libraries
171
increase in number of
51
library system
117
life of the nation
70
opinion
6
12
26
73
133
201
307
341
space of reception of art
95
public sphere
3
15
17
22
28
37
43
52
53
57
64
66
68
70
73
84
85
105
106
108
110
111
114
124
125
127
130
132
133
142
145
147
149
151
167
168
173
187
189
218
223
227
230
231
236
237
253
255
265
267
269
270
371
273
277
300
307
314
319
321
325
326
336
337
356
362
crafting of a
7
creation of
5
6
democratized
9
formation of the
7
in Europe, formation of the
6
inclusive
24
large and deorganized
8
literary
5
making of
6
multi-vocal nature of the
20
normative definition
6
Publication
13
24
30
36
40
43
55
57
61
64
65
69
74
92
115
116
136
194
187
200
204
205
216
283
288
297
299
352
357
publication of Quarterly Catalogues
30
publicists
3
4
8
11
13
15
16
18
22
26
57
67
106
107
112
115
128
129
131
133
146
149
153
160
162
167
169
190
192
201
207
208
211
214
217
218
220
229
231
232
235
237
240
243
248
251
253
263
265
336
338
339
publicity
70
95
297
306
310
319
321
355
358
Punjabi language
32
Pūṇya (journal)
281
Purāṇa
40
41
qisse in rural Punjab
107
quality
42
151
153
158
a literary language
214
entertainment
14
23
and educative reading
138
essays
61
201
illustration
91
journal
95
of city life
178
of paper etc.
12
of public discourse
8
paper/s
53
56
91
provided and the print
101
periodical
206
photographs and paintings
77
90
34
print
205
Queen Alexandra
91
quest for
aesthetic sophistication
21
analogous cultural awakening amongst Bengal’s Muslims
219
high art
71
high-brow literature
73
126
investment profitability
65
perfection
9
readable literature (pāṭhopayogī sāhitya)
44
reviews
146
self and community identities
285
selfhood
217
the “best self” (Arnoldian)
190
the colonial state’s primary and higher education schemes
112
the Muslim Bhadramahila
312
writings
34
34
64
77
101
question/s of
abarodh
318
319
320
321
an authentic ‘Islamic past’ for Bengal’s Muslims
25
ascertaining reading trends
111
authorship
235
chastity and morality
130
136
152
153
circulation and readership
118
evidence based history writing
251
federation
83
formation of a parallel ‘bhadralok’ class within the Muslim community
312
hegemony
114
heterogeneity
365
Hindu-Muslim relationship
194
imposition of the jiziya
235
languages
219
liminality of the moral codes of society
141
literary propriety
155
love (praṇaẏ)
144
and conjugality
158
middleclassness
366
mother tongue
257
‘Muslim Tyranny’
231
Muslim women
313
obscenity
174
periodical consumption
111
permissibility
150
political conflicts
265
political consciousness
324
readership and reading practices
110
367
reform and rights of Muslim women
313
social change and self-cultivation
362
social reform, rational sciences and theories of religion
44
124
women’s
education
301
337
public engagement
306
reading practices
284
rights
337
voting rights
337
quotidian
domesticity
14
religious knowledge
305
Quranic āẏet
339
Qutb Minar at Delhi
75
Rabindranath Tagore/Rabindranath
1
10
10
12
12
21
28
29
42
46
53
57
59
62
63
66
69
70
74
77
78
83
106
115
118
119
120
123
131
132
139
150
151
156
161
163
169
176
187
189
228
247
285
291
325
330
331
341
345
347
349
354
356
359
363
365. See also Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore’s
Citrāṅgadā
21
132
247
Cokher Bāli
363
critique of Gandhian Program
27
341
349
speech
28
Rabindranath’s reminiscences
121
Radhakamal Mukhopadhyay
78
80
133
181
Radhakanta Deb
39
116
Radhanath Sikdar
43
280
Radhanath Sikdar’s Māsik Patrikā
43
radical
critique
189
Historical transformation
362
literary experiments
177
modernists
15
right in Europe
emergence of the
10
socialist turn
367
turn in Bengali literary aesthetics
367
radicalism
3
67
of Kallol group
133
Rahasya Sandarbha (journal) Rajendralal Mitra’s
34
rājadharma, domain of
63
Rajanī halo Utalā
184
186
Rajendra Chandra Shastri
35
Rajendralal Mitra
42
44
105
Rajkrishna Mukhopadhyay
49
59
60
Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
61
77
78
Ram Varma
90
Ramakrishna Mission
165
Ramakrishna Paramahansa
104
164
165
Ramananda Chattopadhyay
57
62
64
69
71
73
80
97
100
101
112
182
191
288
291
309
337
341
Ramananda Chattopadhyay’s Prabāsī
62
first editorial venture Pradīp
69
illustrated miscellany Prabāsī
23
illustrated monthly
71
Ramaṇī Rahasya
136
Rāmāẏaṇ
40
42
284
Ramdas Sen
49
59
Ramendrasundar Trivedi
61
76
77
117
Rameshchandra Dutta
61
Ramkamal Sen
39
Ramkinkar Beij
90
Rammohan Roy
39
Rampran Gupta’s serial narration in Prabāsī
242
Rasasundari Devi
105
122
Rasselas, Samuel Johnson’s
40
rational
historical methods
239
piety
262
264
sciences
44
rationalism
195
243
Ratnaji Viswasrao
244
Ravi Varma
90
91
93
Raziya Khatun/Raziya Khatun Chaudhurani
318
320
323
325
readable literature
24
reader
community
130
148
211
society (pāṭhak samaj)
23
readers
16
19
190
192
201
209
210
218
222
225
222
229
231
233
237
241
248
268
272
276
278
281
283
284
286
288
290
291
293
296
300
301
305
306
313
315
321
325
329
330
332
335
336
338
340
342
350
353
357
358
361
363
364
367
individual and conjugal lives
161
socially sensible
24
readers’
choices
40
existing aesthetic sensibilities
66
reader’s taste, transition in the
47
readership/s
5
9
22
23
25
41
42
57
59
60
65
70
73
84
95
106
109
125
127
128
133
152
210
211
214
287
356
alternative
192
amorphous
59
Bengali
72
182
Bengali middle-class
275
Bengali-Muslim
209
Bengali-Muslim women
315
broader
241
burgeoning
104
concept of widening
177
confined
109
democratize
8
differentiated
104
extended
115
female
153
268
273
277
280
281
288
290
formation of a
182
formation of alternate
24
general
61
habituated
210
heterogeneity of the
110
hierarchies of
149
Hindu
245
incorporative
126
informed
149
journal
182
limited
97
literary
84
male
288
mass
110
middle-class
13
92
94
364
middle-class bhadralok
174
modern
255
multiple
24
nationalist
340
periodical
111
112
117
192
printed
133
quantifiable
111
questions of
367
secured
37
sizeable
104
200
206
targeted
51
103
111
138
280
uniform
118
widening of
29
104
women’s
293
reading
321
as habit
115
audience
106
142
148
359
habit
15
42
44
67
106
122
123
147
149
167
264
301
material in the vernacular
22
political and cultural investments in
16
practices
16
42
46
73
107
130
138
272
277
284
364
367
of women
284
294
public
110
creation of
13
reading culture
12
a modern, preparatory
5
realities of colonial subjugation
14
reconstituted Hindu tradition
24
redefined Hinduism
21
redefining the meaning of aślīlatā
173
“reflections of society” (samājcitra)
18
reform of aesthetic taste (ruci saṃskār)
228
reformed
education
264
madrasa scheme
243
reading, need for
14
reformism
21
230
318
reformist drive
22
105
134
reformists
15
21
154
269
271
276
317
Registration of Books Act
29
reinterpretation of devotion
26
religious
and caste violence
8
and mythological subjects
40
communities (upāsak sampradāẏ)
1
texts
41
Renaissance
93
363
African Cultural (movement)
329
Bengal
10
18
Europe and nineteenth century Bengal
227
Reports on Publications Issued and Registered in the Several Provinces of British India
30
review of books
12
35
revised textbooks
236
238
revisionist discourse of history
236
revivalist
Hindu orthodoxy
21
nationalism
128
132
167
-nationalist publicists
161
Robinson Crusoe
42
Rohilla chief Najib-ud-daula
344
Rokeya’s
literary strategy
321
style
321
See also Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
role of an editor
84
romances and religious tracts among rural Muslims
192
romantic love
21
24
128
129
131
132
145
153
160
162
164
166
173
187
244
and courtship
128
and modernism
129
debates around
160
Romantic tales and mysteries
140
Rousseau
129
Rujuneekantu (Rajanikānta)
140
S. Wajed Ali
221
224
226
S.M. Akbaruddin
240
Śabdakalpadrum (journal)
69
Sabitri Library
116
Sabuj Patra (journal)
15
16
28
63
65
66
66
66
70
82
96
103
154
211
224
321
337
367
Sabyasācī
59
sacitra māsik patrikā
23
62
63
73
74
85
90
93
94
118
sacitra patrikā
92
94
96
Sadashivrao Bhau
244
246
250
Sadat Ali Akhand
264
sadhabā
304
sadhabār prem
155
158
Sādhanā (journal)
22
28
28
44
45
61
63
69
83
321
sādhāran pāṭhak (common reader)
14
17
106
sādhu bhāṣā (literally genteel language)
33
66
197
222
223
223
224
(The) Sadler Commission Report (1919)
212
Sahacar (journal)
201
sāhacaryer śāsan
106
sahadharmī (writers akin)
115
Sāhitya (journal)
15
22
35
49
55
60
62
62
63
69
76
90
93
93
95
117
127
130
150
152
154
159
160
169
171
186
187
207
210
211
sāhitya āsvādan
150
sāhitya bodh (sense of the literary)
130
sāhitya circle
187
sāhitya kṣetra
8
67
106
107
227
sāhitya or literature
10
22
106
Sāhitya Pariṣaṯ
191
Sāhitya Pariṣaṯ Patrikā
117
sāhitya patrikā (literary journal)
5
7
12
20
107
201
emergence of the
22
new genre of
14
sāhitya platform
169
sāhitya samāj
3
16
96
sāhitya samālocanā
24
147
171
190
sāhitya sebā (literary practice)
22
61
70
96
97
112
Sāhitya’s campaign
186
sāhitya-karmī
68
sāhitya-sebī
68
against Tagore and Saratchandra
186
Sāhitye Svāsthyarakṣā
159
sāhityik aślīlatā
161
174
178
sāhityik nīti or sāhityik dharma (literary morality)
130
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
175
179
355
Sainik Badhu (short story)
324
Sajanikanta Das/Sajanikanta
186
188
Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar
61
Salimullah Bahadur, Sir Khwaja
201
samāj citra
229
Samajpati
128
161
171
187. See also Sureshcha
Samālocanā
147
148
151
152
samālocanā sāhitya
146
sāmaẏik (periodical)
12
35
‘Sāmaẏikī’
147
Sāmaẏikpatre Bāṅglār Samājcitra (Reflections of Bengal’s Society in Periodicals)
17
Saṃbād Prabhākar (journal)
137
‘Saṃbād Sāhitya’
187
Samser Ali
205
Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas
40
Sāmya (poem by Nazrul Islam)
331
Sanātan Dharmasabhā
34
sanctity of
Hindu marriage
21
141
rural strictures
15
Sandhyā (Swadeshi era newspaper)
26
271
354
Śaṇibārer Ciṭhi (journal)
49
60
114
115
152
186
188
350
Sanskrit
32
35
54
159
167
216
224
226
alaṃkār theorist
172
alaṃkāraśāstra
172
literary culture
234
literature, ancient
173
pandits
28
poets
172
words
55
Sanskritic
aesthetic tradition
172
alaṃkāraśāstra
173
Sanskritized
Bengali of the
Hindu and Brahmo intelligentsia
222
223
Hindus
217
reformed Bengali prose
216
sādhu style
54
version of Amir Hamja
222
words
222
Saogāt (journal)
16
96
200
201
204
206
208
210
224
229
247
255
257
260
262
265
320
321
321
325
326
350
350
Saogāt editor
205
210
247
262
264
320
325
Saogāt era
204
Saogāt group
206
264
Saogāt office
323
Saogāt writers
259
262
264
Saogāt yug
200
204
Saogāt’s alignment with Nazrul Islam
265
Saral Kumar Dutta
324
Sarala Devi/Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
159
161
267
Sarasvatī (Hindi journal)
74
Saraswati Library
116
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
49
64
131
142
153
156
159
160
176
187
326
355
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s
161
major novels
142
manuscript
127
novel Caritrahīn
127
171
novel Pather Dābī
36
novel Srīkānta
160
novels Svāmī and Bilāsī
159
Sarbahārā (Nazrul’s verse)
357
sarbajanīn
111
261
Sarojini Naidu
267
307
Sarojnalini Dutta Narimangal Samiti
309
Library
291
Sashibhusan Basu
3
4
satīlakṣmī (novel)
284
satīlakṣmī and sugṝhiṇī
155
Satish Sinha
94
Satishchandra Mukhopadhyay’s Māsik Basumatī
62
satītva
315
saṯ-sāhitya (good literature)
156
saṯ-saṅga (good company)
156
sattva or the introspective knowledge
183
Saturday Evening Post
100
Saturday Magazine
91
satyāgraha
27
Satyendranath Bishi
90
Satyendranath Dutta
46
77
77
109
Satyendranath Tagore
44
77
Satyer Āhvān (essay)
343
Sayyida Motahera Banu
325
scholarly journals
143
science and medical journals
20
34
seclusion (abarodh)
26
230
258
271
273
293
297
314
315
317
319
321
323
325
sedition
29
357
sepia monotones
90
Serampore Baptist Mission
43
serial
fiction/s (dhārābāhik kathāsāhitya)
142
299
novels
14
22
61
77
108
121
140
200
299
serialization
in periodicals
150
of a fiction
148
series of reports on libraries and reading facilities
116
Śeṣer Kavitā (Tagore’s novel)
180
sexual
anarchy
167
and bodily pleasures
136
behaviors
185
of marginal
178
consent
132
desire/s
159
160
168
178
284
363
education
168
lust
132
misconduct
104
prejudice
179
sexualities
42
sexuality in print
149
Shah Jahan Nama
235
Shahidullah, Mohammad
220
256
‘Shājāhāner Mṝtyu’ (painting)
92
Shakespeare
42
254
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
109
Shakta poets
54
Shamsuddin Ahmad
223
247
248
Shamsunnahar Mahmud
324
Shanta Devi
74
75
77
78
80
108
110
176
176
shared
reading
107
social location
151
space
94
248
of cultural experience
16
Sharia
206
259
311
313
314
320
sharif qawm
311
sharif space
311
sharif women
318
Sheikh Habibur Rahman
226
Shelley
42
46
286
Shivaji
237
Shobhabazar Zamindars
41
68
short stories
13
157
of Maupassant Guy de
108
Shuja-ud-daula
244
246
250
shurafa
311
Śikhā (journal)
205
256
257
Sikhism
337
śikṣā (education)
317
śikṣita pāṭhak
114
Simlā Baṅgīẏa Sammelan
85
85
Sir Jadunath Sarkar
18
78
78
84
86
207
233
236
252
Siraj and Mir Kasim
236
Siraji
210
228
237
254. See also Ismail Hossai
Siraji’s epic
255
narration of Karbala
254
Sita Devi
77
108
176
176
300
307
Sītārām (Bankim’s novel)
223
Sītār Banabās
42
54
ślīlatā (i.e. decency)
129
145
155
‘small books’
37
small-sized journals
66
social
acceptability
21
anarchy
168
and cultural world of Bengal
10
and economic stratification of the middle classes
53
and linguistic hierarchies
105
and literary life
204
and political
concerns
57
developments
18
discourses
1
and state resources
53
anxieties
16
284
aspirations
41
105
130
192
ban
285
-body
157
categories
3
349
360
classification/s
4
359
range of
4
communication
52
106
ethic/s (samāj nīti)
24
128
162
165
171
function of critics
150
functions of literature
106
groups
4
6
41
51
53
57
64
108
113
130
175
176
274
355
363
365
institutions
6
9
9
156
189
institutions and practices
189
issues
15
57
83
104
201
230
critical
15
life (samāj jīban)
2
3
14
15
17
195
331
362
363
modern forms of
17
mobility and material wealth
114
norms and practices
15
novels by Bankim
140
order
1
128
143
149
162
168
new
3
organizing principles of
1
orthodoxies
26
pedagogy
8
potential of literature
106
principles
169
reform/s
15
44
124
125
132
161
204
228
270
270
272
277
298
300
310
337
359
debates
132
success of
24
reformers and public educators
161
relations
162
relationships
3
140
176
187
345
353
resource
1
114
163
210
212
responsibility
149
sanctions and instincts
145
scientists
156
sensibility (sāmājik ruci)
152
service/s (sāmājik paridhi)
26
297
307
solidarity
70
107
space/s
5
28
276
163
for circulation of ideas
7
status
163
and power
41
thought (samāj citra)
18
19
78
unacceptable relationships
159
values
20
153
world
108
140
151
195
196
251
assumed symmetry of the
141
‘social constitution’
2
socially
differentiated readers
149
heterogeneous public
64
inclusive
96
sanctified norms, supremacy of
145
sensible readers
73
unacceptable relationship
159
societal concerns
15
society
1
6
24
26
37
51
125
156
160
161
170
187
188
194
208
228
256
272
275
277
294
296
300
306
319
320
326
330
331
338
339
349
353
359
363
alternate
314
basis of
3
Bengali
50
128
158
173
183
bhadralok
142
civil
7
124
173
323
colonial
16
118
colonized
17
contemporary
3
178
184
conventional norms of
132
critique of
129
discourses on
362
heterogeneous
2
‘Hindu’
159
163
266
idea of
4
Indian
195
337
indigenous
53
124
136
141
157
159
337
injunctions
144
lower orders of
136
marriage in our
164
Medieval Bengal
195
members of the
136
modern
166
moral
codes of
141
order of
168
Muslim
197
200
207
209
229
new
3
5
131
non-polarized
195
non-politicized
195
notions of
3
4
peasant
119
political
11
possibility of
128
poverty ridden
105
reader
23
59
152
204
rural
264
under-capitalized
23
universe of
129
utopia of a
108
violation of
132
woman’s place in
160
women and marginal groups in
66
socio-economic
backgrounds
64
differentiations
118
instability
147
resources
114
sociologist
3
18
‘sociology of literature’
5
solely women’s journals
153
solitary reading/s
57
107
113
Sonābhāner kecchā
196
Sonār Tarī (Rabindranath’s book of verse)
285
soujanya (courtesy)
173
Soumendranath Tagore
190
soundarya
172
and satya (truth)
181
soundarya bodh (sense of beauty)
130
Southey, Robert
39
sovereignty
53
111
139
158
260
339
348
space
5
10
14
20
22
25
28
34
37
43
53
57
61
62
64
65
68
72
73
75
77
79
80
82
91
93
97
99
99
103
104
106
108
113
116
117
120
122
125
131
140
141
146
147
153
154
158
163
165
168
169
178
191
192
194
195
197
204
207
209
213
214
221
267
276
293
302
311
317
specialized
journals
37
writing projects
60
specific
formatting of periodicals
121
genre preferences
16
specifically modern form of leisure
121
Spencer and Durkheim
156
sphere of
circulation
129
sāmaẏik sāhitya
107
spinning
27
spiritual
communities
20
emancipation (mokṣa)
167
spoken (calit) Bengali
25
spoken form
66
spread of literacy
6
śramajībī (the working classes)
98
Srishachandra Majumdar
77
śṝṅgār
172
aesthetic of
142
aesthetics
141
concept of love
141
or ādiras ideal
141
standard education(śikṣā praṇālī)
156
Standardization of
colloquial prose
55
the spoken form of Calcutta
224
Star Theatre
340
Steam Navigation and Transit Companies
34
stereotypical
47
ideas of the West
158
Strī-ācār
304
Strī-dharma
282
297
Strīr Patra (Tagore’s short story)
154
Strī-Svādhīnatā
271
276
277
295
325
Subaltern Studies
11
subalternized
bhadralok
142
class
163
existence
40
subcontinent
27
29
31
32
38
40
76
79
134
169
220
231
233
235
245
332
347
363
South-Asian
75
sub-dominant colonial elite
125
sub-national Bengali Identity
73
subscriber household
101
subversion of creativity
67
Sudhindranath Tagore
28
suffrage rights
337
Sufi folk tales
215
Sufia Kamal
312
323
325
sugṝhiṇī
300
308
suitable reading (supāṭhya)
148
‘Sujātā o Buddha’ (painting)
91
Sukhalata Rao
90
Sukumar Sen
214
215
223
Sultan of Turkey
200
Sultan Saladin
237
Sultanate
245
and Mughal periods
238
Sun
80
Sunni revivalist
261
Suppression of eroticism and sensuality in print
139
Suprabhāt (journal)
35
Sureshchandra Samajpati
53
60
127
132
154
159
187
surrogate
arenas
158
Englishman
39
or formal education
73
suruci (good taste)
173
Suśīlār Upākhyān (Tales of Sushila)
42
Svadeś or nation
76
svādhikār (own right)
326
Svāmī (Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s novel)
159
160
svarāj
344
Swadeshi
agitation
345
day newspapers
26
days
10
96
354
enterprise
279
ideology
365
lesson
388
market
340
movement
4
phase
70
responsibilities
279
sāhitya or literature
10
years
10
92
131
271
Swadeshi Movement
4
10
84
299
307
330
338
346
358
359
365
Swarnakumari Devi
55
77
108
267
286
293
298
299
Syed Emdad Ali
201
207
224
247
253
Syeduddin Khan
262
264
Syncretistic linguistic styles
42
Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
238
Tagore
1
11
12
28
29
66
69
70
132
132
155
157
161
162
164
166
170
172
176
180
181
186
188
281
291
341
342
344
346
348
349
356
365
366
Tagore family
enterprise
69
residence at Jorasanko
181
Tagore’s
48
aesthetic
21
181
argument
345
associates
172
autobiography Chelebelā
194
brief eight line verse Dhūmketu
355
Citrāṅgadā
21
lyrical ballad
160
169
close associate Priyanath Sen
171
Cokher Bāli (novel)
157
363
critique of the equivalence
165
descriptions of Citrāṅgadā’s physical beauty
172
exchanges with the modernists
181
fiction and verse
286
indifference
188
negative response
179
non-prose works
180
notion of culture
366
oeuvres like Strīr Patra, Naṣṭa-Nīṛ, Ghare Bāire and Citrāṅgadā
poem
355
poetry
181
portrayal of courtship
132
private secretary Sudha Kanta Raychaudhury
350
prose-poem “Bān̐śī”
366
rejection of urban squalor
179
supporters
21
take on the 1921 Movement
342
tenuous relationship
180
works
153
180
reception of
132
writings
163
164
Tagorean
175
aesthetic/s
21
175
177
190
and social ideals
167
of love
167
of romantic love
187
byakti-mānab
341
inheritance
179
‘non-nation’
348
poetic tradition
352
sense
1
Tagores
28
65
289
365
Tahzib un-Niswan (Urdu journal)
313
Tales and Romances
47
139
Tales like Rujuneekantu (Rajanikāntā)
140
Tales of Sushila
42
tamaddun
242
243
tāmasik guṇ, concept of the (dark attribute)
186
Tamil print production
35
taqlid (un-Islamic practice)
264
Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai
271
target audience
115
174
target readership/s
103
111
targeted readership
51
138
Tarikh-e-Firishta
235
Tarikh-e-Hind
235
tarikhs
234
235
Tarūṇ (journal)
324
task of cleansing literature
146
task of mentoring new writers
208
Tattvabodhinī Patrikā/Tattvabodhinī
44
45
55
68
103
117
365
Tattvabodhinī Sabha
68
“Tattvabodhinī” school
45
Tattvabodhinī writers
54
Tawarikh-e Sindh
234
team of defiance (niẏom bhāṅgār dale)
323
‘techniques of mass contact’
26
Tekcān̐dī
55
terms of disjuncture
10
territorial decolonization
10
354
text
16
textbooks
237
by anti-Muslim Hindu writers
237
for Muslim students
236
textile merchants
339
347
textiles
347
textual
and graphic
110
and visual enjoyment
103
tradition of puthi sāhitya
222
The Mussalman
262
The Tales of Pataldanga
185
The Translator
136
theologian-intellectuals
210
theologians
192
200
201
206
207
228
260
262
325
theological
and philosophical matters
19
learning
229
theology
25
228
theories of psychoanalysis
183
theory (tattva)
180
third battle of Panipat
25
243
Thompson (English missionary)
172
threat of vulgar literary senses
149
threat to the moral order of society
168
170
three forms of illegitimate love
158
three languages in question
219
three major debates
25
Tilak Swarajya Fund
333
Tili Samācār
20
Tilottamāsambhava Kāvya
43
Tolstoy, Leo
159
Tom Kākār Kuṭir (Bengali rendition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
109
traditional
and semi-oral literary genres
57
genres
37
patriarchy
154
śṝṅgār concept of love
141
Upper scribal castes
63
traditionalists
15
tragedy
253
at Jallianwallah Bagh in Punjab (1919)
341
transformation of middle-class values
124
transformative capacity of
142
literatures
15
reading
17
transgressed societal boundaries
162
transgression
and compliance
155
of socially sanctioned boundaries
363
of virtues
154
transition in the reader’s taste
47
139
translated and annotated versions
234
translating Persian sources
233
translation/s (tarjamā)
and discussions
13
from Persian and Arabic literatures
220
of English emotions and ideas
144
of European fiction
6
of the Koran
34
transliteration
25
trans-periodical
20
trends in commercial publishing
96
tribal communities
178
tribute to Panipat
245
true space of Islam
311
Turkey
258
Turkish warrior
237
Tutināmā
215
Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri
235
twentieth-century
69
72
73
96
107
263
352
363
colonial Bengal
109
decades
367
intellectuals
67
literary sphere
57
151
periodicals
363
turn of the
209
240
two groups of
periodicals
265
readers
209
two memories
204
two sets of binaries
145
two-penny magazines
72
type of periodical
30
tyrannical foreign ‘Muslim’
231
U. Ray & Sons
90
Uddīpanā
201
Ufāter Kabitā
196
ulema
192
205
206
228
258
262
264
265
317
317
339
on part of the
264
reform of the
264
ulema’s
deprecations of mukta buddhi
258
“entrenched interests” (kāẏemī svārtha)
265
monopoly
259
upper classes (uccaśreṇī)
42
50
221
upper crust journal
76
upper caste
258
Bengali home
269
Hindu Bengali elite
50
Hindus
50
Umayyad Abbasid
241
conflicts
234
Umayyad Caliphs
234
Umayyad monarchs
260
Umayyad Spain
261
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
109
“un-historical” (anaitihāsik)
253
uniform reading habits
148
uni-lingual
Bengali miscellaneous periodicals
34
books and periodicals
33
un-Islamic
209
215
220
253
260
264
320
324
352
aesthetic, Kaekobad’s
247
aesthetics
25
literary sensibility
360
practice like taqlid
264
practices
248
syncretistic practices
215
un-Islamicism (anaislāmikatā)
25
247
United Province
167
United States of America
330
universal
157
223
272
accessibility
7
brotherhood in Islam
261
literacy
57
106
148
religion
260
261
universalism
257
260
349
University of Calcutta
137
185
University of Dhaka
212
university professors
365
“unjust conservatism” (anyāẏ go̐ṛāmī)
264
unorthodox possibilities
331
unregulated
carnality
168
sexuality
168
of women
127
unsophisticated readers
106
“untouchability”
224
Upāsanā (journal)
158
Upendrakishore Raychaudhury
90
301
Upendranath Gangopadhyay
62
62
127
155
365
upgrading printing presses
23
urban
40
73
179
217
and rural lower middle classes
41
and semi-urban areas
243
Calcutta
177
early twentieth century
116
public libraries in
116
culture, growth of
6
habitat/s
175
183
366
habitations
57
marginalized
133
Indians, young
189
life
178
189
275
in Calcutta
93
lifestyles
275
living
133
175
181
lower classes as literary subjects
174
mass culture
275
middle and lower middle-class audience
164
middle classes
118
271
281
middle-class
Bengali homes
282
reader/s
108
140
religiosity
165
middleclassness
14
modernity
175
mofussil and rural areas
335
petty bourgeoisie
163
poor
57
221
vices
52
57
138
wage-earners
358
urbaneness
363
‘urbanity’
173
“urbanity of style”
173
urbanization
97
122
urbanized
192
Urdu
32
68
197
215
216
218
222
225
226
232
318
319
360
a language of India’s northwest
221
as a medium of expression
324
cultural and literary traditions
311
cultural traditions
192
journal Tahzib un-Niswan
313
literary
sphere
232
tradition
220
speaking
population
220
221
residents of Bengal
221
terms salika (meaning “taste”)
296
words
215
225
utilitarianism
144
utopia of a society
108
Uttarā (journal) edited by Atulprasad Sen
63
80
Vaiṣṇava
41
and Śākta poets
54
literature
159
religious poetry
128
tradition of Bengal
137
Vaiṣṇava Padābalī
159
Vaishnavism
337
value of
a literary work
145
satītva
144
Vamanacarya
172
Vāṯsyāẏan
167
vernacular
22
45
49
52
55
68
104
115
129
178
206
218
220
221
223
226
272
283
adaptations of sensational themes
67
books and periodicals
35
education
51
73
111
115
elite
96
fiction
140
for centuries
220
journalism
18
literacy
112
literary
canons
130
field
36
journalism
36
market
142
production
32
literate
57
109
123
237
and lesser educated
57
readers
110
literature
137
magazine form
53
medium
236
303
modern standardized and refined
33
newspaper press
26
periodical/s
112
117
138
177
literary culture of
36
121
production
36
primary education
113
print
40
44
97
134
147
prose
54
254
public sphere
319
publicists
231
puthi
255
reading
42
114
116
reading public, making of a
11
refined
33
rendition of European texts
109
school textbooks
47
schooling
107
societies
231
writing
60
Vernacular Press Act of 1877
137
vernacular’s consistent improvement (kramonnati)
117
verse editorial of Dhūmketu
356
Victoria Press, the owner of
136
Victorian
356
and Orientalist perceptions
173
bourgeois
134
England
7
91
109
feminists
269
illustrators
94
literary
periodicals, mid-century
140
public sphere
53
publicists
146
magazines
49
miscellanies
91
morality
144
women’s periodicals
294
Victorian Protestant moral codes
135
Vidyasagar
54
54
206. See also Iswarcha
Vidyāsundar
137
170
Viennese
intellectuals
10
intellectuals’ disillusionment
10
vīj of prem rog
157
violating the Shariat
206
violation of
civility
64
domestic conventions
325
ślīlatā or norms of decency
145
society (samāj) and scriptural (dharma) sanctions
132
violence
3
250
330
341
346
347
military
195
organized
359
political
195
religious and caste
8
repressive
331
Virgil
254
virtual community of readers
80
visibility of women’s writers
25
visual media
95
Visva-Bharati
342
343
Visva-Bharati Brahmacarya Asram
341
Visva-Bhāratī Press at Santiniketan
74
Viśvakoṣ
82
Viswasrao
250
Vivekananda
165
vocabulary
92
152
161
224
290
301
347
alternative
327
Bengali
204
226
colloquial
216
new
225
nineteenth century reformist-nationalist
282
306
of reforming public reading practices
130
Perso-Arabic
222
scientific
226
words
25
vulgar reading habits
167
‘vulgarity’
139
W.E. Houghton
12
Wajed Ali
191
Walter Bagehot
151
Walter Scott
39
War
67
83
84
95
96
98
98
99
118
163
178
212
245
330
341
349
353
war chronicle in verse
246
war slogans
252
War years
30
64
103
118
133
Warfront
84
warriors
Hindu
250
Maratha
244
resolute
244
Turkish
237
wars and warriors, descriptions of
249
war-time demands
178
wedding songs
40
weekly/ies
12
12
26
223
30
100
103
126
197
265
324
West Asia
19
25
242
history of
260
West Asian region
242
258
noble migrants
311
Western
93
aesthetic standards
144
and central Bengal
179
civilization
345
classificatory Schemes
32
concept of ‘love’
159
educated circle
41
education
38
39
49
57
Europe
93
97
eighteenth-century
9
India
76
learning
among the upper caste Hindus
50
amongst the indigenous elite
39
literary genres
56
modern
13
literature
67
modernity
9
9
notions of
copyright laws
33
love
159
parts of Bengal
224
perceptions of indigenous literary traditions
36
political philosophy of Rousseau and Kant
129
psychoanalyses and sociology
189
psychoanalysis
176
psychoanalyst
182
psychological theories
188
public spheres, norms of
7
sartorial fashion
339
scientists and philosophers
144
societies
166
thought
51
traditions of knowledge
365
westernized mobile woman
273
widow’s love (bidhabār prem)
155
widowhood
161
315
social stigma against
363
widows
157
178
272
277
293
298
308
309
363
and prostitutes
178
wifely
chastity, norms of
21
devotion
24
William Wordsworth
39
woman’s pre-marital relationship
155
womanhood
and femininity
328
ideals of
153
notions of
153
womanly conduct
154
women
6
15
24
25
41
63
66
72
73
77
96
101
103
109
112
113
120
122
123
126
127
137
139
142
144
153
157
158
161
162
165
166
168
172
185
206
230
240
266
268
270
271
275
280
290
302
305
309
310
314
318
319
321
323
325
328
342
354
363
and children in the vernacular
28
and lower class Muslims
41
authors
108
Bengali Muslim
26
278
in colonial Bengal
270
282
laborers
179
Muslim
206
257
258
315
novelists
299
of bhadralok households
103
of middle-class households
94
of the antaḥpur
42
of the household
269
reader/s
26
44
108
185
268
273
281
283
288
293
301
305
320
periodicals meant exclusively for
24
scientists and poets
103
status for
267
within marriage
132
writers
25
26
176
267
273
274
277
281
286
295
297
299
301
315
326
women’s
activism
327
aesthetic sensibility
283
and Bengali Muslim periodicals
70
anonymous writings
297
associations
291
310
awakening (nārī jāgaraṇ)
307
cultural practices
130
curriculum
307
desires
275
domestic space
302
education
270
272
287
301
303
304
317
337
educational endeavors
44
engagement in the public sphere
319
entry into
public spaces
325
the professional work
278
fashions
108
health
284
history
103
313
household duties
282
income
308
intellect
274
involvement in the literary world
267
issue/s
288
319
of the Saogāt (Mahilā Saogāt)
325
journals
19
20
44
72
113
153
210
267
273
275
278
279
283
287
288
290
293
294
297
304
306
308
and Bengali-Muslim periodicals
126
language
302
learning
298
legal rights within the Islamic tradition
327
life experiences
271
lifestyles
26
literacy
287
and political activism
298
literary
choices
306
cultures
268
engagements as readers and writers
268
magazine
276
reading culture
287
monthlies
295
natural role
278
need for pleasure
25
new political demands
271
or children’s magazines
101
organizations
272
participation
266
306
in professional work force
306
periodicals
25
26
69
268
273
275
278
282
287
288
290
291
293
295
306
308
317
328
political activism
271
310
position
166
professions
306
”progress”
271
progressive movement
323
public
engagement/s
268
306
involvement
306
participation
298
as writers
297
presence
267
role
288
question/s
288
within nationalist discourse
25
readership
293
reading
284
circle
122
practices
272
277
284
294
preferences for Baṭtalā fiction
315
readings
283
285
294
304
and issues pertaining to women
317
rights
313
326
in the public realm
327
section/s
101
288
in miscellaneous
308
sociability
276
320
social status
267
socialization
320
tongue
281
university
303
voices
270
voting rights
337
welfare
276
work
26
278
308
310
outside home
278
writings
274
276
297
womenfolk
119
120
122
138
179
266
294
320
321
323
325
gossips (āsar)
119
in the family
119
of the household
14
or peasants
107
world of
Baṭtalā
365
Bengal
literary
7
social and cultural
10
cosmopolitan art
94
culture
10
European paintings
92
periodicals
125
primary urban middle class readers
108
print
91
prurient print
41
the subalternized bhadralok
141
twentieth-century Bengal
133
women
325
World War I
98
142
299
350. See also First World War
writer-reader society
59
writers of Islam’s history
236
yamadut (the messenger of God)
225
Yamunā (journal)
127
Yogāyog (Tagore’s novel)
155
young
men, educated
67
modernists
180
189
modernists’ criticism
181
Muslim men
208
Muslim students
211
Rabindranath’s observation
12
readers
26
widow/s
157
308
writers
67
younger group of poets
11
youth and middle class groups
108
youth hostels in Calcutta
208
yuddha kābya
246
yugadharma (the call of the times)
248
Yugāntar group of revolutionaries
355
yukta Islam or united Islam, the idea of
221
Yusuf-Julekhā
215
zamindars
affluent
108
agrarian power nexus of
262
zenana
321
zuafa
317