By Sudipta Kaviraj
This learn argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced the most looking out severe reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim used to be a conservative, claiming that his paintings has to be obvious in a special, historic context.
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Literally, the babu becomes totally narcissistic. ·Mental or psychological novels, and romantic poetry which a gradu2te male usually oddresses to undetgnduote females, become his paradigmatic literary norms. In these two fornu of literature the literary babu could see portrayed the linle tempests of his middle-class soul. A poetic heartbreak followed by an unromantic utilitarian marriage was his idea of the limits of the enduroble risks of human life. try existence. "' But he is olways seen in rebtion to a whole world of people, others who ore not babus: his wo men, his servants, his milkwoman, his vendors, the entire lower orders who constitute the market-place of his everyday.
The whole burden of housework is left to hired maids . . I consider it a hateful way oflife if lif~g expensive carpets is their only way of exerting themselves. Human beings are born in order to contribute to others' happiness. A woman. who comes to the earth ro loll on the bed, ~ her hair in front of the mirror, roll up cupets, read 'The Exile ofSita' (Sitir vanavas), and give birth to children, who contributes to the happiness of none except her own, may be marginally superior to animals, but her womanhood is worthless.
64 Humour and tht Prison 11rt Unhappy Consci11115nru It is of course possible, and I think correct, to suggest that this pbce of the lower orders as speaking subjects in Bankim could be a dual fe>ture. aturc. ature played a major part. ature as a mirror of western sociery. Lllenture portrayed cwo features of western cultute which they considered signifacant. First, novels, because they were mainly realistic, provided a reliable picture of the mechanisms of social relations. h e novel. ary heritage which carne to be regarded, superstitiously.
