Self, Conjugality and Sexual Discourse in Late-19th Century Bengal

Abstract <br /> <br /> Sexual practices, beliefs and ideologies were gradually shifting in a new discursive pattern in late 19th century colonial Bengal. The project of social reformation was working from the middle of the century to sanitize almost all the aspects of Bangali cultural life and was trying to re-shape it in a more radical way. Within this same period, nationalism also was emerging as the most decisive force which became the major factor behind these transformations. The new discourse focused on the new concepts of self-making, a new kind of conjugality,household-family along w...