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Muslims, who had lost land and position disproportionately, did not occupy any important role during the period whereas the English-educated Hindu middle class, especially in Bengal, called "bhadralok", provided the necessary leadership to the Hindu community.
Cuckoo's call Nila-kantha-chandra 2010
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Add to those physical attributes, the 'bhadralok' etiquettes and you get a complete package in the form of Priyanshu Chatterjee.
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That perhaps was the only time the very 'bhadralok', or gentleman, Basu broke the CPM's strict rules of discipline.
The Times of India 2010
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Calcutta, the subjection of Indians under British colonialism spawned the bhadralok population, which did not remain entirely determined by their colonizers but developed their own sophisticated critiques of the Enlightenment, whose potential has still not fully been played out.
Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Calcutta, the subjection of Indians under British colonialism spawned the bhadralok population, which did not remain entirely determined by their colonizers but developed their own sophisticated critiques of the Enlightenment, whose potential has still not fully been played out.
Nostalgia is now the only industry in Kolkata Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The Bhagavadgita was rediscovered as a text that provided guidance in time of war; and the lonely figure of Arjuna who must fight the long arduous war for justice in spite of his reluctance to kill became the symbol for the bhadralok revolutionary who must participate in a violent struggle to forge a nation out of blood and sacrifice.
Archive 2008-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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As the commander of an army of bhadralok revolutionaries, Aurobindo practiced a different form of elitism.
Archive 2008-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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As the commander of an army of bhadralok revolutionaries, Aurobindo practiced a different form of elitism.
It would not be fair to consider Sri Aurobindo complicit in the creation of Hindu nationalism Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Banerji, the bhadralok could have been more charitable towards his fellow teachers who are famously known to pursue "personal and political agendas" all the time, all over the world.
Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Banerji, the bhadralok could have been more charitable towards his fellow teachers who are famously known to pursue "personal and political agendas" all the time, all over the world.
Banerji kow-tows before the same system that he is complaining about Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word bhadralok
"The cooking and eating of food thus became deeply implicated in the cultural politics of bhadralok nationalism."
-- from the abstract of "Nation on a Platter: the Culture and Politics of Food and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal" by Jayanta Sengupta, in Modern Asian Studies volume 44, issue 1: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09990072
January 11, 2010