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Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal
- Title
- Recasting the region : language, culture, and Islam in colonial Bengal / by Neilesh Bose.
- Author
- Bose, Neilesh
- Publication
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 324 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Muslims > India > Bengal > History
- Muslims > India > Bengal > Intellectual life
- Muslims > India > Bengal > Languages
- Bengal (India) > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
- Contents
- Modern Bengali Muslim literary culture -- Ideological traffic in Calcutta -- Literary publics in Dacca -- Regional confidence and the rise of folklore -- Ideas of Pakistan and the end of empire -- Language and religion in the post-colonial state.
- ISBN
- 9780198097280
- 019809728X
- 0199082936 (electronic bk.)
- 9780199082933 (electronic bk.)
- LCCN
- 2014357918
- OCLC
- ocn869791527
- 869791527
- SCSB-5836484
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries