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Chatterji, Joya

Bengal divided : Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 / Joya Chatterji - New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xvii, 303 pages : maps ; 24 cm. - Cambridge South Asian studies, 57. .

Bengal politics and the Communal Award --
The emergence of the mofussil in Bengal politics --
The reorientation of the Bengal Congress, 1937-45 --
The construction of Bhadralok communal 'identity': culture and communalism in Bengal --
Hindu unity and Muslim tyranny: aspects of Hindu Bhadralok politics, 1936-47 --
The second partition of Bengal, 1945-47.

Bengal Divided relates how a large and powerful section of Hindu society in Bengal insisted that their province be divided to create a separate Hindu homeland. The picture which emerges is one of a fragmented society moving away from the mainstream of Indian nationalism, and increasingly preoccupied with more parochial concerns.

ISBN: 9780521051446

Publisher. No.: Brijwasi Book Distributors :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History
History of Asia
India & neighboring south Asian countries;
Communalism.
Communalism -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Bengale -- 1947 (Partition)
Teilung

Dewey Class. No.: 954.1403 CHA