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Hardcover Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822 Book

ISBN: 019807512X

ISBN13: 9780198075127

Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822


Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.

While Sex and Sensibility deals with larger issues of sexuality, concubines, and dynamics of households in colonial Bengal, this volume deals with life in Calcutta...

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