The Crises of Civilization by Dipesh Chakrabarty

Author:Dipesh Chakrabarty [Chakrabarty, Dipesh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2018-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

54 See Manindramohan Bose, ‘Introduction’, Deena chandidaser padabali, 2 vols (Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1938), vol. 2, p. 9. See also the chapter called ‘Chandidas shamashya’ in Muhammad Shahidullah, Bangla sahityer katha: Madhyajug, 3 vols (Dhaka: Rennaisance Printers, 1967–8), vol. 2, pp. 40–68.

55 Quoted in Bose, ‘Opinions on the First Volume’, Deena chandidaser padabali 2: 1–2.

56 D. C. Sen, Bangabhasha o shahitya, vol. 1, p. 121.

57 D. C. Sen, Bangabhasha o shahitya, (Calcutta, 1901, 2d ed.), pp. 186–7.

58 Dinesh Chandra Sen, Bangabhasha o shahitya (Calcutta[?]: Sanyal and Co., 1926[?], 6th ed.), pp. 213–4.

59 There seems to be an interesting overlap—or maybe a homology—between this romantic way of collapsing the analytical distance between the past and the present and what is sometimes observed in studies of religious practices. I have in mind Carolyn Dinshaw’s stimulating discussion of ‘queer history’—‘where past and present collapse in a now’ connecting lives that are only ‘queerly co-extensive’. Dinshaw discusses the case of the medieval saint Margery Kempe who literally treated Jesus’ death ‘as if he died this same day’ (Carolyn Dinshaw, ‘Always Historicize? Margery Kempe Then and Now’ [unpub. ms.], 2003).

60 Niharranjan Ray, Bangalir itihash: Adiparba (Calcutta: Dey’s, 1993 [1949]), p. xix. The corresponding passage in Sen’s autobiography reads:

The sound of conch shells and bells every morning and evening, the sweet smell produced by burning of incense and sandalwood, the ever-emergent red colour of lotus flowers—it was as if they all filled up Bengal villages, their marketplaces, fields, ghats, and pathways, with an atmosphere of devotion to God. I began to consider the dust of every village of my motherland sacred. This was nothing like the [new-fangled] emotion of nationalism or patriotism on my part. Nor was it a feeling produced by simply copying the English. Truly did every particle of dust of this land make my tears flow. An indescribable feeling of attraction made me fall in love with the land of Bengal. (D. C. Sen, Gharer katha o jugashahitya, p. 120)

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