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Bengal divided : Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 / Joya Chatterji

By: Chatterji, JoyaContributor(s): Chatterji, JoyaMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Series: Cambridge South Asian studies, 57Publication details: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994Description: xvii, 303 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521051446Subject(s): History | History of Asia | India & neighboring south Asian countries | Communalism | Communalism -- India -- Bengal -- History | Bengale -- 1947 (Partition) | TeilungDDC classification: 954.1403 CHA

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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