Home and the World, voyage, traduction et domicile dans la modernité bengalie

Home and the World: Travel, Translation and the Home in Bengali Modernity Placing ourselves at the vanishing point of market "globalisation", this article is aimed at analysing how "modernity" came to the Indian people, particularly Bengalis, based on a reading of travelogues ranging over two and a half centuries, from the late 18th century to the early 19lh century. The successive generations of travellers that formed as such ; in relation to the British occupation each : had its own system of historicity. Through these systems, a plan gradually crystallised to remodel time and space by rooting modernity in everyday life. By dissociating the descriptions of the "exterior" "public" sphere - institutions, production systems, education, etc. - from those of the "interior" - home: women.', family, etc.. - the field of action in which the tension of identity and of nationalist « education occurs, the authors of these travelogues contributed to the emergence of a "vernacular cosmopolitanism"' founded on a modern self that persisted in thinking of itself as non-western.