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In 1947 the fabric of Bengali rural society woven together by a common language and a syncretist popular culture was torn asunder on lines of religion. During the final two decades of colonial rule in India the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Jamuna deltaic tracts of east Bengal increasingly became the scene of tension and violent conflict between a Muslim peasantry and a predominantly Hindu landed gentry. The conflict between rival élites in a plural society over government jobs and positions of vantage in the legislative arena has been a subject of scholarly studies in twentieth-century Bengal. Successive 'legislative attacks' of one status and interest group upon another have been carefully identified and documented, and their significance assessed. The inner dynamics of the struggle in the countryside and the periodic outbursts of 'communal' fury that rent rural Bengal during this period have not come under the same systematic investigation. Yet, without the agrarian dimension to the Hindu–Muslim problem in Bengal, the politics of separatism would in all likelihood have proved ineffectual and been washed away by the strong tide of a composite nationalism.

"The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent's social, economic and political past. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, this definitive study offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that have shaped the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. This new edition on the 75th anniversary of independence and partition brings the narrative up to the present day, discussing recent events and addressing new themes such as the capture of state power in India by the forces of religious majoritarianism, economic development in the context of the 'rise' of Asia and strategic shifts occasioned by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and China's increasing role in the region. Providing fresh insights into the structure and ideology of the British raj, the meaning of subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class, religion and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism and the dynamics of decolonization, this is an essential resource for all students of the modern history of South Asia in an Indian Ocean and global context"--

"This book uses an innovative people-centred approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished, and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal wars of partition that mark the South Asian experience. Chapters sensitively bring Kashmiri voices to the fore to examine Kashmir in the national discourses of India and Pakistan, resistance in the Kashmiri imagination, and the Kashmir conflict in a global context. The book foregrounds how the space of Kashmir as a cultural, historical and political sphere persists and continues to haunt the postcolonial national present as the people of Kashmir and their cultural, literary and artistic productions cannot be contained within the regnant paradigms of the nations across which the region is partitioned. Additionally, the book explores how long-term resolution would demand engagement with historical forces, political actors, and social formations that exceed the nation-state. An important contribution to the study of this troubled region, this book will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern South Asian history and politics as well as comparative politics and international relations"--

Is nationalism a boon or a curse? / Amartya Sen -- Benjamin in Bengal: cosmopolitanism and historical primacy / Saranindranath Tagore -- Said and the history of ideas / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Iqbal on Nietzsche: a transcultural dialogue / Ayesha Jalal -- Different universalisms, colorful cosmopolitanisms: the global imagination of the colonized / Sugata Bose -- Gandhi's printing press: Indian Ocean print cultures and cosmopolitanisms / Isabel Hofmeyr -- A local cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the invention of Europe for a modern Kerala / Dilip M. Menon -- Communist internationalism and transcolonial recognition / Kris Manjapra -- Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-45 / Benjamin Zachariah -- A colored cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's reading of the Afro-Asian world / Nico Slate -- Creative India and the world: Bengali internationalism and Italy in the interwar period / Mario Prayer -- On Orientalism and iconoclasm: German scholarship's challenge to the Saidian model / Suzanne Marchand

Asia redux : conceptualising a region for our times -- The idea of Asia and its ambiguities -- The intricacies of premodern Asian connections -- Asia is not one -- Response to Prasenjit Duara, "Asia redux" -- Floating : no gears shifting -- Response to comments on "Asia redux