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Community and nation : essays on identity and politics in Eastern India / Papiya Ghosh.

Van Pelt Library DS432.M84 G47 2008
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English
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Physical Description:
xxii, 218 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Summary:
Study with special reference to the Muslims from Bihar, India.
Contents:
  • Colonial 'Muslim' politics in Bihar
  • Community questions and Bihar politics 1917-23
  • The making of the Congress Muslim stereotype : Bihar, 1937-9
  • Articulating community rights : the Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha in Congress Bihar, 1937-9
  • Muttahidah qaumiyat in aqalliat Bihar : the Imarat-i-sharia, 1921-47
  • The virile and the chaste in community and nation making : Bihar 1920s to 1940s
  • The 1946 riot and the exodus of Bihar Muslims to Dhaka
  • Partition's Biharis
  • Reinvoking the Pakistan of the 1940s : Bihar's 'stranded Pakistanis'
  • Partition's South Asians : diasporic mediations.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780195693003
  • 0195693000
OCLC:
221862295

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