Sharatchandra’s Caste and Gender Consciousness: A Reassessment

SAGE Open

Narasingha Sil¹ 

关键词: Asia;    area studies;    humanities;    modern;    periods;    history;    literature;    cultural anthropology;    anthropology;    social sciences;    arts &;    humanities;    curriculum;    education;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244014564360

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s attitude to the prevalent caste system and social ethos, especially concerning sex, love, and marriage and chastity of married as well as widowed women, shows a marked ambivalence. On one hand, his work demonstrates his progressive and liberal ideas emanating from Western contact and impact on late colonial India, and on Bengal in particular. On the other hand, and by the same token, his attitude to love, marriage, and sex shows marked affinity with the Victorian morality emanating from the society of colonial India’s metropolitan masters. The upshot of this historical and social context is that Sharatchandra was basically a caste conscious Hindu Brahmin and a firm believer in the patriarchal ethos of his contemporary society, his reputation as a compassionate (daradī or maramī) writer exposing the ills of his society notwithstanding.

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