The debates and confusion, the disenchantment with the Left in power, the hiatus between the Left’s ideology and practice all are meaningfully related to major anti-Left Front agitations and the subsequent fall of the Left regime in west Bengal. The gradual lack of success of the new theatre of the iPTA is articulated in terms of the distance that marked the middle-class/bhadralok theatricians from the reality they intended to represent, providing further stimulating insights into the plural world of the bhadralok. overall, Ghosh’s book, though being a new multidimensional analytical addition to the literature on the bhadralok, suffers from the old problem of marking the bhadralok as a caste-free category.

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书评：迪潘卡尔·古普塔，从“人民”到“公民”：民主的必经之路

争论和混乱、对左翼掌权的失望、左翼意识形态和实践之间的停顿，都与反左阵线的重大骚动以及随后的西孟加拉左翼政权垮台有关。iPTA 新剧院逐渐缺乏成功的原因在于，中产阶级/巴德拉洛克戏剧家与他们打算代表的现实之间的距离，进一步激发了对巴德拉洛克多元世界的洞察力。总体而言，Ghosh 的书虽然是对 bhadralok 文献的新的多维分析补充，但仍存在将 bhadralok 标记为无种姓类别的老问题。