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)