A Partition of Contingency? Public Discourse in Bengal 1946–1947

The historiography on the Partition of Bengal has tended to see it as a culmination of long term trends Hindu and Muslim communalism within the province. This essay offers a counter narrative to the ‘inevitability’ of the Partition by focusing on Bengali public discourse in the months leading up to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roy, Haimanti
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51358