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Kaliprasanna Sinha’s Hootum Penchar Naksha demonstrates that the transition to industrial capitalism in mid-nineteenth century Calcutta involved the persistence of precapitalist spatial practices, which were eventually suppressed by state and elite forces to forge a disciplined, caste-inflected capitalist social order. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how Kaliprasanna Sinha's nineteenth-century text Hootum Penchar Naksha reflects the uneven transition from agrarian spacetime to industrial capitalist space and consciousness in colonial Calcutta.

August 22, 2026South Asian History and Culture

The afterlife of pre-capitalist spacetime and the urbanisation of Indian consciousness

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ANArijit Nandi

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Textual analysis reveals how industrial capitalism disciplined precapitalist cultural rhythms in nineteenth-century Calcutta, highlighting the emergence of a caste-inflected urban consciousness.

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To examine how Kaliprasanna Sinha's nineteenth-century text Hootum Penchar Naksha reflects the uneven transition from agrarian spacetime to industrial capitalist space and consciousness in colonial Calcutta.
Conducted a critical literary and spatial re-reading of Kaliprasanna Sinha’s mid-nineteenth-century text Hootum Penchar Naksha.
Applied Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical framework on the production of space to analyze the regulation of urban time, leisure, and labor.
Identified persistent feudal agrarian spatial practices, such as folk festivals and popular religious events, that routinely interrupted the abstract time demands of the rising industrial capitalist order.
Documented how colonial state coercion and elite reform contained disorderly urban practices to establish a capitalistic social order grounded in productivity, respectability, and caste hierarchies.

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Arijit Nandi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a898131ca7ade938187f349 https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2026.2721101

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Textual analysis reveals how industrial capitalism disciplined precapitalist cultural rhythms in nineteenth-century Calcutta, highlighting the emergence of a caste-inflected urban consciousness.

The afterlife of pre-capitalist spacetime and the urbanisation of Indian consciousness

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