Short description: This book tries to answer some frequently unasked questions about the history of Bengal. In what way was twentieth-century Bengal different from 'Renaissance' Bengal of the late nineteenth century? How did a regional identity consciousness develop? What social experiences drove the Muslim community's identity consciousness? How did Bengal cope with crises like the inflation during World War II, and the famine of 1943, the communal riots, climaxed by the Calcutta riots of 1946? This work attempts to look at these crises which cast a shadow on the decades that followed the period under study, 1920-1947.…mehr
Short description: This book tries to answer some frequently unasked questions about the history of Bengal. In what way was twentieth-century Bengal different from 'Renaissance' Bengal of the late nineteenth century? How did a regional identity consciousness develop? What social experiences drove the Muslim community's identity consciousness? How did Bengal cope with crises like the inflation during World War II, and the famine of 1943, the communal riots, climaxed by the Calcutta riots of 1946? This work attempts to look at these crises which cast a shadow on the decades that followed the period under study, 1920-1947.
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He was earlier Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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Abbreviations 1: Reinventing Bengal: the 1920s 2: The Gender Question and the New Bhadra-Mahila 3: Affinity and Its Denial: Caste and Communal Identities 4: The Logic of Fission: Muslim Identity and Its Contestation 5: Gandhian Politics and Its Alternatives: 1920-1935 6: The Politics of Exclusion: 1936-1946 7: The Warning Signals: the Crises of the 1940s 8: 'The Edge of a Volcano': 1946-1947 9: 'Division of Hearts': Last Days of United Bengal Bibliography About the Author Index
Abbreviations 1: Reinventing Bengal: the 1920s 2: The Gender Question and the New Bhadra-Mahila 3: Affinity and Its Denial: Caste and Communal Identities 4: The Logic of Fission: Muslim Identity and Its Contestation 5: Gandhian Politics and Its Alternatives: 1920-1935 6: The Politics of Exclusion: 1936-1946 7: The Warning Signals: the Crises of the 1940s 8: 'The Edge of a Volcano': 1946-1947 9: 'Division of Hearts': Last Days of United Bengal Bibliography About the Author Index
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