‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms

This article attempts to delineate and plot the contours of the intercultural contributions of Gerasim Lebedev in a linguistic-cultural domain totally alien to him, in early-colonial Calcutta. It also seeks to contextualise the intense polysemy between ‘microcosmic’ personal and literary journeys a...

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Autor principal:	Gautam Chakrabarti
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	pre-Victorian Bengali theatre interculturality Gerasim Lebedev Goloknath Das Russian Indology Sir William Jones Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8ee1c49a84f446b8b12cf98432920d8c2021-11-27T12:53:27Z‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.061732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/8ee1c49a84f446b8b12cf98432920d8c2021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1676https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 This article attempts to delineate and plot the contours of the intercultural contributions of Gerasim Lebedev in a linguistic-cultural domain totally alien to him, in early-colonial Calcutta. It also seeks to contextualise the intense polysemy between ‘microcosmic’ personal and literary journeys and the ‘cosmopolitan’ acculturation that came with Lebedev’s socio-cultural background and travels. Though, as will be seen in the essay, Lebedev’s pathbreaking maverick effort was largely a shot in the dark, his achievement is seen, in almost the entire theatrical fraternity in West Bengal and Bangladesh, in terms that can be described as larger than life. The essay will seek to understand the extent to which Lebedev’s personal and professional choices reflected deep cross-cultural sympathies, thus making him an enthusiast with a difference. Gautam ChakrabartiKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlepre-Victorian Bengali theatreinterculturalityGerasim LebedevGoloknath DasRussian IndologySir William JonesIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 17 (2021)
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topic	pre-Victorian Bengali theatre interculturality Gerasim Lebedev Goloknath Das Russian Indology Sir William Jones Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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description	This article attempts to delineate and plot the contours of the intercultural contributions of Gerasim Lebedev in a linguistic-cultural domain totally alien to him, in early-colonial Calcutta. It also seeks to contextualise the intense polysemy between ‘microcosmic’ personal and literary journeys and the ‘cosmopolitan’ acculturation that came with Lebedev’s socio-cultural background and travels. Though, as will be seen in the essay, Lebedev’s pathbreaking maverick effort was largely a shot in the dark, his achievement is seen, in almost the entire theatrical fraternity in West Bengal and Bangladesh, in terms that can be described as larger than life. The essay will seek to understand the extent to which Lebedev’s personal and professional choices reflected deep cross-cultural sympathies, thus making him an enthusiast with a difference.
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title	‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms
title_short	‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms
title_full	‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms
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‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms

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