Introduction; 1. Bengal politics and the Communal Award; 2. The emergence of the mofussil in Bengal politics; 3. The reorientation of the Bengal Congress, 1937–45; 4. The construction of Bhadralok communal 'identity': culture and communalism in Bengal; 5. Hindu unity and Muslim tyranny: aspects of Hindu Bhadralok politics, 1936–47; 6. The second partition of Bengal, 1945–47; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.
An original and compelling account of the Hindu partitionist movement in Bengal.
"Chatterji weaves together an array of theoretical insights and scholarly reconstructions to trace the formation of an identity for the middle class in the nineteenth century." Lou Ratte, International Journal of Hindu Studies
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