Semanti Ghosh

Different Nationalisms

Bengal, 1905--1947

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book claims that there were many different nationalisms in colonial Bengal. It shows that Bengali Muslims were not opposed to Hindu-Muslim unity, but keen to work on this unity on a regional level. It also shows that Bengali Hindu nationalism was also not a homogeneous body of thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199468232
• ISBN-10: 0199468230
• Artikelnr.: 47870213

Autorenporträt

Semanti Ghosh is Senior Assistant Editor at Anandabazar Patrika in Kolkata, India. She earned her PhD in Modern South Asian History from Tufts University, Cambridge, USA. She has edited and authored books on partition and nationalism in Bengali.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Unity and Difference in a Divided Homeland, 190511
Chapter Two: Promises and Politics of a New Nation, 191225
Chapter Three: Politics of Enumeration and the Changing Nation, 192636
Chapter Four: Two Coalitions and Three Moments of Failure, 193745
Chapter Five: Pakistan, Partition, and the Province, 19467
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author