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Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 57) by Joya Chatterji is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study provides a re-evaluation of the history of Bengal focusing on the political and social processes that led to the demand for partition in Bengal and tracing the rise of Hindu communalism. In its most startling revelation, the author shows how the demand for a separate homeland for the Hindus, which was fuelled by a large and powerful section of Hindu society within Bengal, was seen as the only way to regain influence and to wrest power from the Muslim majority. The picture which emerges is one of a stratified and fragmented society moving away from the mainstream of Indian nationalism, and increasingly preoccupied with narrower, more parochial concerns.

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Author

Joya Chatterji

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511563256

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Anthropology

Rating

4.14 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14