Download or read book The Unhappy Consciousness written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by School of Oriental & African Studies University of London. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist who produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. Author Sudipta Kaviraj rejects the traditional view that Bankim was a conservative, arguing that we require a different and more complex description of the historical significance of his art.