{"product_id":"recasting-the-region","title":"Recasting the Region","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecasting the Region studies the trajectories of Muslim Bengali politics and examines the literary and cultural history of Bengali Muslims from the early twentieth century until the 1952 Language Movement. It argues that Muslim political mobilization in late colonial Bengal did not emanate from north Indian calls for a separatist 'Muslim' state of Pakistan, but rather emerged out of a sustained engagement with local Bengali intellectual and\n\u003cbr\u003eliterary traditions. In six chapters, the book features  meticulous research on topics like the pursuit of folklore, literary modernism, and intellectual movements in both Dhaka and Kolkata in\n\u003cbr\u003ethe late colonial period. Examining language literary texts, the social histories of newspaper and magazine offices, and the writings of Bengali Muslim politicians and intellectuals, the book delves into the meaning of nationalism and decolonization for the Bengali Muslims. Focusing on the cultural history of the largest Muslim population of the colonial era, the Bengali Muslims, this work utilizes heretofore unexplored Bengali sources as well as offers a new\n\u003cbr\u003einterpretation of the emergence of the state of Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060445892846,"sku":"9780198097280","price":73.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198097280.jpg?v=1736511819","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/recasting-the-region","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}