Reviews for Cultural Heritage of Nepal Terai

The average rating for Cultural Heritage of Nepal Terai based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-04 00:00:00 Darren Null A must read for anyone interested in intellectual history. Theoretically rich and coming from a great intellectual tradition.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-15 00:00:00 Thomas Pacioni I wrote a massive, detailed response to this book on my blog. But its too big for goodreads, so I'll just leave the link and the first few paragraphs here: For those who are tempted to pick up this book as a primer on Bengali culture- put the book down. This is really a book not on culture, but culuralism, that is to say the social and political ideology that encompasses most of the Bengal Renaissance. Without reservations I applaud Andrew Sartori for making good on his promise to deliver a explanation of the rise of Bengali culturalism and related thought systems such as Bengali classical liberalism, and to a lesser degree, early Bengali Hindu nationalism, Bengali Muslim nationalism, and Bengali Marxism. His analysis is grounded in the particular local intellectual and economic changes taking place in Bengal. He does not place a disproportionate weight on formal chains of intellectual influence, nor does he fall into the vulgar Marxist trap of economic determinism. Kudos! However, in the first two chapters of the book, he lays out (in excruciatingly jargon laden and difficult to read prose) several other promises, which are either unelaborated and/or left unproven. I'll zero in on one illustrative example, which he phrases as a sort of thesis for the whole book: Sartori claims to show that Bengali culturalism is rooted in a fundamental "misrecognition" of the structures of global capitalist society.