Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal /
Bose, Neilesh,author.
This book examines the literary and cultural history of Bengali Muslims from the early twentieth century until the 1952 language movement. This book 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. This work examines Bengali language literary texts, the social histories of newspaper and magazine offices, and the writings of Bengali Muslim politicians and intellectuals. Inclusive of six chapters, the book features original research on topics such as the pursuit of folklore, literary modernism, and intellectual movements in both Dacca and Calcutta in the late colonial period. By focusing on the cultural history of Bengali Muslims, this work utilizes heretofore unexplored Bengali sources and offers a new interpretation of the emergence of the state of Pakistan.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-318) and index.
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.
This book examines the literary and cultural history of Bengali Muslims from the early twentieth century until the 1952 language movement. This book 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. This work examines Bengali language literary texts, the social histories of newspaper and magazine offices, and the writings of Bengali Muslim politicians and intellectuals. Inclusive of six chapters, the book features original research on topics such as the pursuit of folklore, literary modernism, and intellectual movements in both Dacca and Calcutta in the late colonial period. By focusing on the cultural history of Bengali Muslims, this work utilizes heretofore unexplored Bengali sources and offers a new interpretation of the emergence of the state of Pakistan.
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