Bistriti Parveen
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2024 | Page No: 211-217 | |||
The Unique Modernity
of Aparajito
Bistriti Parveen, Senior Research
Fellow (Ph.D), Department of English, University of Calcutta, India | |
Cultural modernity in India was a response to British colonial subjugation. It was developed to counter the charges of barbarity against Indian society and to prove to the British that India was capable of ruling itself. The project of creating a modern national culture originating as a corrective measure was characterized by nativism and hegemony of the Indian elite. The philosophy developed by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay in Aparajito expresses a modernity that attempts to rectify the flaws of Indian national modernity. The unique modernity expounded through the novel ventures to counter the onslaught of colonialism on Indian culture with universal values of transcendentalism. By doing so it creates an ideology that is not only modern but eternal in its relevance. | |
Keywords: Modernity, modernization, colonialism, anti-colonial, national culture, hegemony, universalism, transcendentalism. | |