RG ST 19 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Print Culture, Public Culture, Social Realism
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Public culture and print: literate publics and the writing of liberation. The totality of such consumers and those engaged in changing ideas through print form a public sphere. Writing under colonialism, 1820: periodicals and other historical novels were the most popular form of printing writing under colonialism. The book in eastern india : elite indian reformist writing in bengali, colonial civilizational improvement literature in. History became public, not just in the state-focused definition of public. Consumers of history in eastern india: basic vocational and business literacy in letters and numbers existed among middle castes in the. With print, they became the largest body of consumers: propagation of colonial ideas through the print created a vacuum of history for the colonized, leading to furious writing about history by nationalist men. Most remained family-owend, not like joint-stock capitalist interests: liberation/freedom and the weekly newspaper: gradual co-existence of history based ideas with. Future based notions of liberation, equality, and nation.
