Recasting the region
Subtitle: language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal
By: Neilesh Bose
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780198097280; 9780199082933
Subjects: Languages; Muslims; Intellectual life; Muslim; Kultur; History
Description: Presents an analysis of Muslim political mobilization in the late 20th century, arguing that it emerged out of a sustained engagement with Bengali intellectual and literary traditions rather than from north Indian calls for a separatist Muslim state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern Bengali Muslim literary culture; title: Ideological traffic in Calcutta; title: Literary publics in Dacca; title: Regional confidence and the rise of folklore; title: Ideas of Pakistan and the end of empire; title: Language and religion in the post-colonial state.