Sri Ramakrishna, the Kathamrita and the Calcutta middle classes: an old problematic revisited
@article{Sen2006SriRT, title={Sri Ramakrishna, the Kathamrita and the Calcutta middle classes: an old problematic revisited}, author={Amiya P. Sen}, journal={Postcolonial Studies}, year={2006}, volume={9}, pages={165 - 177} }
In a well-known essay of 1976, Walter G Neevel alerted us to certain ‘transformations’ in the Bengali mystic, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836 /1886). The three transformations that Neevel speaks of were effected, if one reads him correctly, not so much on account of Ramakrishna himself as despite him. The first*/the transformation of the ‘madman’ of the early years to the benign, saintly figure of the later years*/appears to have been brought about more by shifting public gaze than some…
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