TY - BOOK ID - 85465918 TI - Revolutionary pamphlets, propaganda and political culture in colonial Bengal PY - 2014 SN - 131616697X 1316166309 131616585X 1107588375 1316166538 1316166759 1316167194 1107065461 1322177473 1316164454 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pamphlets KW - Propaganda KW - Political culture KW - Revolutionaries KW - Terrorists KW - Social movements KW - Movements, Social KW - Social history KW - Social psychology KW - Criminals KW - Revolutionists KW - Dissenters KW - Counterrevolutionaries KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Communication in politics KW - Political psychology KW - Social influence KW - Advertising KW - Persuasion (Psychology) KW - Psychological warfare KW - Public relations KW - Publicity KW - Social pressure KW - Booklets KW - Leaflets KW - Street literature KW - Vertical files (Libraries) KW - History KW - Bengal (India) KW - Bengal KW - Fort William (India) KW - Presidency of Fort William (India) KW - Bengale (India) KW - Baṅgāla (India) KW - Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) KW - West Bengal (India) KW - East Bengal (Pakistan) KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465918 AB - Pamphlets have usually been regarded as ephemeral literature with little permanent impact. This work demonstrates the historical value of this genre of political literature. The propaganda pamphlets help historians place a finger on the pulse of an extraordinarily important historical period when new ideas concerning the nation-state, the rights of the governed and forms of political protest complicated the political scene and opened up new fronts of conflict between the colonial state and the colonized subjects. This study devises innovative approaches to reading these pamphlets and generates new insights into the world of the pamphleteers thus providing the readers with a more nuanced understanding of the politics and political culture of early twentieth-century Bengal. In the process, the book makes an important contribution to the historical controversies that the politics of this period has generated among scholars of Indian nationalism. ER -