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(The) Rays before Satyajit : creativity and modernity in colonial India.

by Sengoopta, Chandak.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ©2016Description: 418p.ISBN: 978019946453..Subject(s): Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992. Bengal -India- HistoryDDC classification: 954.14030922
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Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. A study of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and itscollateral branches, This book interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions
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