The Rays before Satyajit [electronic resource] : creativity and modernity in colonial India / Chandak Sengoopta.

First edition.

9780199087198 (electronic book)

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xi, 418 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464753 doi

DS485.B49 S46 2016eb

954.14030922

Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. A study of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and its collateral branches, This book interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions.

Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. A study of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and its collateral branches, This book interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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