Parthasarathi Bhaumik

Bengalis in Burma

A Colonial Encounter (1886-1948)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book looks at Bengali migrations and settlements in Burma from 1886 until the end of the British rule in Burma in 1948.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781032148694
• ISBN-10: 1032148691
• Artikelnr.: 68714894

Autorenporträt

Parthasarathi Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He co-edited Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886-1948). He worked with the British Library, UK as a Chevening Fellow, and built a database on 'Nationalism, Independence, and Partition in South Asia (1900-1950)'. He is presently the Joint Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and engaged in archiving resources pertaining to the history and cultures of South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue 2. Historical Background of Burma
Bengal Cultural Relations 3. Describing Burma Mulook: Burma in Bangla Literary Discourses (1886
1937) 4. Distrust and Riots (1937
1948) 5. World War II and Burma: Heroism, Violence and Exodus (1938
48) 6. Epilogue