illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
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23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.