num_pages: 286
description: This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why--from the second half of the nineteenth century--the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.
language: English
title: The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal
titlecomplete: The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848-85)
genres: History
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Oxford University Press