Communal Riots In Bengal 1905-1947 (Oxford University South Asian Studies S.) - Softcover

Das Suranjan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195632338 ISBN 13: 9780195632330

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This volume provides an examination of the major riots in Bengal between 1905 and 1947. It addresses the following issues: how an increased conjunction of elite and popular communalism created the necessary background for the riots; why the riots lost their initial class basis and became overtly communal; how a crowd-leadership dicotomy often asserted their "autonomy"; and finally, how the riots promoted communal consciousness at various levels of society and polity which provided an important backdrop to the partition of province in 1947.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195632338
• ISBN 13: 9780195632330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328