Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-381) and index.
Reinventing Bengal : the 1920s -- The gender question and the new Bhadra Mahila -- Affinity and its denial : caste and communal identities -- The logic of fission : Muslim identity and its contestation -- Gandhian politics and its alternatives : 1920-35 -- The politics of exclusion : 1936-46 -- The warning signals : the crises of the 1940s -- 'The edge of a volcano' : 1946-7 -- 'Division of hearts' : last days of a united Bengal.