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Construction of Bengali Mus...
This thesis explores the various discourses on the formation of Bengali Muslim identity in colonial Bengal until 1920s before it becomes hardened and used in various politically mobilizable forms. For the purpose of this thesis, I engage multiple articulations of the Bengali Muslim identity to show the fluctuating representations of what and who qualifies as Bengali Muslim in the period from 1870 to 1920. I critically engage with new knowledge production that the colonial census undertook, the different forms of non-fictional Bengali literature produced by the vibrant vernacular print industry, and the views of the English-educated Urdu speaking elites of Bengal from which can be read the ensemble of forces acting upon the formation of a Bengali Muslim identity. I argue that while print played an important role in developing an incipient awareness among Bengali Muslims, the developments and processes of identity formulations varied in different sites thereby producing new nuances on Bengali Muslim identity
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monografia Rebiun35655034 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun35655034 190626s2010 xx om 000 0 eng d 950538697 https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/7m01bn37x https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:ff7bd0e8-d4a5-44bc-9c7f-072b3e0d441c NOC NOC dc Construction of Bengali Muslim Identity in Colonial Bengal, c. 1870-1920 electronic resource].] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2010-08 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thesis / Dissertation ETD Open access content. Open access content star This thesis explores the various discourses on the formation of Bengali Muslim identity in colonial Bengal until 1920s before it becomes hardened and used in various politically mobilizable forms. For the purpose of this thesis, I engage multiple articulations of the Bengali Muslim identity to show the fluctuating representations of what and who qualifies as Bengali Muslim in the period from 1870 to 1920. I critically engage with new knowledge production that the colonial census undertook, the different forms of non-fictional Bengali literature produced by the vibrant vernacular print industry, and the views of the English-educated Urdu speaking elites of Bengal from which can be read the ensemble of forces acting upon the formation of a Bengali Muslim identity. I argue that while print played an important role in developing an incipient awareness among Bengali Muslims, the developments and processes of identity formulations varied in different sites thereby producing new nuances on Bengali Muslim identity http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 English College of Arts and Sciences Department of History Masters Thesis College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History. ctb Saikia, Yasmin. ctb Abbas, Zaheer. cre