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Author Bose, Neilesh, author.

Title Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal / Neilesh Bose
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 324 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Contents 1. Modern Bengali Muslim literary culture -- 2. Ideological traffic in Calcutta -- 3. Literary publics in Dacca -- 4. Regional confidence and the rise of folklore -- 5. Ideas of Pakistan and the end of empire -- 6. Language and religion in the post-colonial State
Summary 'Recasting the Region' studies the trajectories of Muslim Bengali politics and examines the literary and cultural history of Bengali Muslims from the early 20th century until the 1952 language movement. It argues that Muslim political mobilization in late colonial Bengal did not emanate from north Indian calls for a separatist 'Muslim' state of Pakistan, but rather emerged out of a sustained engagement with local Bengali intellectual and literary traditions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 24, 2014)
Subject Muslims -- India -- Bengal -- Languages
Muslims -- India -- Bengal -- Intellectual life
Muslims -- Intellectual life
SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century
Subject India -- Bengal
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199082933
0199082936