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1 online resource |
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Cover; Making Peace, Making Riots; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; HISTORIOGRAPHY; I. Debates around Communalism; II. Debates Around Riots and Collective Violence; III. Historiography of Communalism and Communal Riots in Bengal; IV. Debates Around Gender In Partition Historiography; THE PRESENT WORK; ENDNOTES; 1. The Dacca Riot, 1941; THE RIOT; CHARACTERISTICS MARKING THE RIOT; ANTI-COMMUNAL RESISTANCE, RELIEF AND REHABILITATION; ENDNOTES; 2. Famine 1943 -- Towards a Hardening of Community Identities |
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I. THE FAMINE OF 1943 -- THE RUPTURE IN BENGALI SOCIETYII. THE POLITICS OF RELIEF, REHABILITATION AND COMMUNITY; ENDNOTES; 3. From Community to Communal: The Bengal Secondary Education Bill and the Idea of Pakistan; I. CASTE AND COMMUNITY POLITICS AROUND THE ISSUE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION; II. THE PAKISTAN MOVEMENT; ENDNOTES; 4. The Great Calcutta Killing, August 1946; I. PREPARATIONS BEFORE DIRECT ACTION DAY; II. THE CITY IN THE GRIP OF TERROR; III. THE BLAME GAME; IV. THE 'CROWD' IN THE GREAT CALCUTTA KILLING; V. ANTI-COMMUNAL RESISTANCE; ENDNOTES; 5. Noakhali Riots, October 1946; I. THE RIOTS |
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II. PATTERN OF VIOLENCEIII. RELIEF AND RESISTANCE; ENDNOTES; 6. A Test of Faith: Gandhi in Noakhali and Calcutta 1946-47; GANDHI'S NOAKHALI SOJOURN; Gandhi's Peace Strategy; GANDHI'S IMPACT ON MUSLIMS; GANDHI'S PERSONAL LIFE AS AN 'EXPERIMENT'; THE LAST WEAPON OF THE SATYAGRAHI -- GANDHI AND THE CALCUTTA FAST, 1947; ENDNOTES; Concluding Remarks; ENDNOTES; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Barisal; Mymensingh; Dacca; Faridpur; Noakhali; Tippera; Pabna; Khulna; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Pujas; Vratas; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; Private Papers; Oral History Transcripts |
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Records of Political OrganizationsOFFICIAL RECORDS; Government of India; Government of Bengal; India Office Records, British Library, London; PUBLISHED OFFICIAL SOURCES; Survey and Settlement Reports; District Gazetteers; Legislative Assembly Proceedings; Unpublished Official Sources; Other Published Sources; Newspapers, Periodicals and Journals; MEMOIRS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHIES AND DIARIES; Novels and Plays; Secondary Readings; Index |
| Summary |
Looks at the decade of 1940s in Bengal and provides a complete understanding of the pre-partition years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index |
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Muslim. gnd |
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Communalism -- India -- Bengal
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Political violence -- India -- Bengal -- 20th century
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Riots -- Bangladesh -- Noākhāli District -- History
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Communalism
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Political violence
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Riots
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Bangladesh -- Noākhāli District
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India -- Bengal
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108673129 |
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1108673120 |
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9781108578790 |
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1108578799 |
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