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Reclaiming Karbala : nation, Islam and literature of the Bengal Muslims / Epsita Halder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halder, Epsita, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in comparative literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bengali literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Bengali literature.
- Bengali literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Bengali literature--Muslim authors--History and criticism.
- Muslims--India--Bengal--History.
- Muslims.
- Islam and politics--India--Bengal.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam in literature.
- Bengali literature--Muslim authors.
- India--Bengal.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.
- New York : Routledge, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-nineteenth century and into the 1940s"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Situating Karbala in Bengal
- Mapping Karbala from orality to print
- Print and Husayn-centric piety
- The rhetoric of loss and recovery: the moment of Muslim jatiya
- The recovery of the past: history and biography
- Literature, identity and modernity
- Conclusion: 300 Karbalas and beyond.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Jadavpur University.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780367459703
- 0367459701
- 9781032195438
- 1032195436
- OCLC:
- 1288422668
- Publisher Number:
- 99994297273
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