The rays before Satyajit: creativity and modernity in Colonial India
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 293
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199464753
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Rays before Satyajit (2016) is a collective biography of the Ray family, which played important, diverse roles in the construction of colonial modernity in India. No such study has been done and the range of the family’s interests – from nationalism to feminism to printing technology – necessitated extensive research in primary sources on three continents. The processing of the voluminous set of data demanded considerable time and effort but the resulting book, charting the history and influence of one family whilst shedding new light on the larger history of modernity in colonial India, is arguably a significant accomplishment.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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