Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on Terminology
Transliteration, and Non-English Terms
1. Modern Bengali Muslim Literary Culture
2. Ideological Traffic in Calcutta
3. Literary Publics in Dacca
4. Regional Confidence and the Rise of Folklore
5. Ideas of Pakistan and the End of Empire
6. Language and Religion in the Post-Colonial State
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author

About the Author

Neilesh Bose is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Texas, Denton, USA.

Reviews

Bose has written an impressive study, an important contribution to histories of the Pakistan Movement and political alternatives that were imagined, in contrast to the inevitability of the singular nation-state idea that dominated discussion of anti-colonial nationalism in British India.
*Rama Sundari Mantena, South Asia Research*