The Hindu self and its Muslim neighbors : contested borderlines on Bengali landscapes / Ankur Barua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barua, Ankur, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Explorations in Indic traditions: theological, ethical, and philosophical.

Explorations in Indic traditions : theological, ethical, and philosophocal

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Relations--Hinduism.

Islam.

Hinduism--Relations--Islam.

Hinduism.

Interfaith relations.

Bangladesh--Ethnic relations.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that these relations are marked by various patterns of amicability and antipathy which emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Religious Borderlines across Bengali Landscapes

Vedic Roots and Colonial Routes

Indian Idioms for Islam

Hindus and Muslims in Stratified Bengal

Conclusion: Amity and Opposition

Notes

Chapter 1: Hindus and Muslims in Unpartitioned Bengal: Affinities and Antagonisms

From Imperial Peripheries to Muslim Homelands

The Beautiful God on Bengali Landscapes

Muslim Roots and Hindu Routes in Precolonial Bengal

Hindus and Muslims in Modernist Milieus

Social Alterities across Undivided Bengal

Conclusion: Thresholds of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 2: Partitioned Lands: Rabindranath Tagore, Nazrul Islam, and Annada Shankar Ray

The Muslim Self and Its Hindu Neighbors

Communal Contours across Bengali Borderlines

Islam in Rabindranath's Religiosity

India in Nazrul's Islam

Hindus and Muslims in Annada Shankar's Two Bengals

Conclusion: Ideas of India

Chapter 3: Rabindranath Tagore: Translated Texts

1. "Hindu and Muslim"9

2. "The Right to Justice"10

3. "Coat or Chāpkān"11

4. "Bengali Lessons for Muslim Students"12

5. "The Chairperson's Address"13

6. "Honest Means"14

7. "A Hindu University"15

8. "The Public Good"16

9. "High and Low"17

10. "Hindu and Muslim"18

11. "Swami Shraddhananda"19

12. "Greater India"20

13. "Hindu and Muslim"21

Chapter 4: Nazrul Islam: Translated Texts

1. "Untouchability"18

2. "Hindus and Muslims"19

3. "Temple and Mosque"20

4. "True Education"21

5. "The New Age"22

6. "The Awakening of Neglected Strength"23

7. "We Are the Band of the Wretched"24

8. "My Path"25

9. "A Monument to Dyer"26

10. "Scenes from Calcutta Grief-struck at Lokamanya Tilak's Death"27.

11. "Muslims in Bengali Literature"28

12. "Muharram"29

13. "Truth"30

14. "The Cultivation of Muslim Culture"31

Chapter 5: Annada Shankar Ray: Translated Texts

1. "What I Believe and What I Do Not Believe"12

2. "Hindus and Muslims"13

3. "Language-Centered Culture"14

4. "Cultural Inheritance"15

5. "Vinobaji in East Pakistan"16

6. "Islam in India?"17

7. "Resolution"18

8. "Dispelling Errors"19

9. "This Plague"20

Chapter 6: Conclusion

References

Index

Author Bio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3258-9

1-7936-4259-1

OCLC:

1312158826