Decolonization in South Asia
Subtitle: meanings of freedom in post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52
By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780415481069; 9780203886281; 9781282153172
Subjects: West Bengal (India) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Title;; title: Copyright;; title: Contents;; title: Acknowledgements;; title: Abbreviations;; title: Introduction;; title: 1 The arrival of freedom: Celebrations, anxieties and realities;; title: 2 The discontents of freedom;; title: 3 Congress Raj in a 'problem province';; title: 4 The communists: From insurgency to electoral politics;; title: 5 The fractured Opposition;; title: 6 The 'great adventure': The election of 1952;; title: Conclusion;; title: Notes;; title: Bibliography;; title: Index