What Happened To The Bhadralok?
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What Happened to the Bhadralok suggests that the arrival of new consumers of culture, drawn from the rural middle class, and the unorganized working-class and small business people from the city further accentuated the process. Whether this has led to a proper democratization of our society, is however a different question.
Parimal Ghosh taught History in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, from 1979 to 2014. His other publications include Colonialism, Class and a History of the Calcutta Jute Mill Hands (2000) and Brave Men of the Hills: Anti-British Resistance & Rebellion in Burma, 1825–1932 (2000).