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Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal

Title
Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal / by Neilesh Bose.
Author
Bose, Neilesh
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Description
xxxii, 324 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 23 cm
Summary
Presents an analysis of Muslim political mobilization in the late 20th century, arguing that it emerged out of a sustained engagement with Bengali intellectual and literary traditions rather than from north Indian calls for a separatist Muslim state.
Subject
  • Muslims > Bengal > History
  • Muslims > Bengal > Languages
  • Muslims > Bengal > Intellectual life
  • Muslim
  • Kultur
  • Bengal (India) > History > 20th century
  • Bengalen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
Contents
Modern Bengali Muslim literary culture -- Ideological traffic in Calcutta -- Literary publics in Dacca -- Regional confidence and the rise of folklore -- Ideas of Pakistan and the end of empire -- Language and religion in the post-colonial state.
ISBN
  • 9780198097280
  • 019809728X
  • 0199082936 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780199082933 (electronic bk.)
LCCN
2014357918
OCLC
  • ocn869791527
  • 869791527
  • SCSB-5836484
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries