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Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822
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Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822 Hardback - 2011

by Peter Robb

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Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.

While Sex and Sensibility deals with larger issues of sexuality, concubines, and dynamics of households in colonial Bengal, this volume deals with life in Calcutta and the re-creation of a British identity. It explores issues like interactions between Europeans and Indians; race and tolerance; laws and legal system; and establishment of colonial city and government giving a bird's eye-view of colonial Calcutta and its dynamic society.

This book will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, gender studies, cultural studies, and British Imperialism, as well as those interested in biographies.

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  • Title Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822
  • Author Peter Robb
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New Delhi
  • Publication date 2011
  • ISBN 9780198075127 / 019807512X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.7 x 8.5 x 0.9 in (14.48 x 21.59 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Blechynden, Richard - Diaries, British - India - Kolkata - Diaries
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011351620
  • Dewey Decimal Code 954.031

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Peter Robb is former Pro-Director, Head of the Department of History, and Chair of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
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