TY - BOOK AU - Chatterji, Joya AU - Chatterji, Joya TI - Bengal divided : : Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 T2 - Cambridge South Asian studies, 57 SN - 9780521051446 U1 - 954.1403 CHA PY - 1994/// CY - New York, NY, USA PB - : Cambridge University Press, KW - History KW - History of Asia KW - India & neighboring south Asian countries KW - Communalism KW - Communalism -- India -- Bengal -- History KW - Bengale -- 1947 (Partition) KW - Teilung N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -