1st Edition
Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal The Making of a Moral Community
By Ananya Dasgupta
Copyright 2023
140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India.
The book argues that the tremendous popularity of the Pakistan movement in Bengal is to be understood not just in terms of "communalization" of class politics, or even "separatist" demands of a religious... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Muslim’s Burden: Riba and the Value of Labor; Chapter 3: The Making of Democratic Islam: Changing Ideas of Muslim Political Representation; Chapter 4: From Respect to Redistribution: The Hegemony of Praja Identity; Chapter 5: Imagining Pakistan: Islam, the Individual, and Egalitarianism in Bengali Muslim Literary Praxis; Conclusion
Biography
Ananya Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, USA.
