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Sreejit Datta (Sreejit Datta)

Sreejit Datta is an educator, researcher, and social commentator, writing/speaking on subjects critical to rediscovering and rekindling the Indic consciousness in a postmodern, neoliberal world.
Presently a fellow of the Rajeev Circle Scholars (RCS) Program – a prestigious book-writing fellowship offered by the Motwani Jadeja Foundation (Palo Alto, USA) – Datta is deploying his scholarly insights to write a monograph that will chronicle the history of revolutionary nationalism in Bengal during the early decades of the twentieth century from an emic viewpoint.
A poet, translator, and trained musician, Datta hails from the city of Calcutta in the Indian state of West Bengal.
He can be reached at:

Email: sreejit.datta@gmail.com

Blogs:
https://medium.com/@SreejitDatta
http://chadpur.blogspot.in/

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August 11, 2017August 26, 2020ESSAY

Nationalism in Indian thought

By: Sreejit Datta

It is a popular myth that Nationalism is a concept alien to India and that it was brought to her shores in the imperial age. A reading of traditional Indic literature (Śāstras and Kāvyas) tells a totally different story.