The defining moments in Bengal / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
- Author
- Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, 1938-2019
- Published
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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--35 -- 6.The Politics of Exclusion: 1936--46 -- 7.The Warning Signals: the Crises of the 1940s -- 8.`The Edge of a Volcano': 1946--7 -- 9.`Division of Hearts': Last Days of United Bengal.
- Summary
- In what way was 20th century Bengal different from the late 19th century 'Renaissance' Bengal? 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 book looks at these crises which cast a shadow on the decades that followed the period under study, 1920-1947.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199083039 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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