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839466
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Roy, Anwesha.
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Making peace, making riots : : communalism and communal violence, Bengal 1940-1947 /\ Anwesha Roy.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1108578799
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: 1108673120
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: 9781108673129
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1108428282
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9781108428286
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| Contents
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Cover; Making Peace, Making Riots; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; HISTORIOGRAPHY; I. Debates around Communalism; II. Debates Around Riots and Collective Violence; III. Historiography of Communalism and Communal Riots in Bengal; IV. Debates Around Gender In Partition Historiography; THE PRESENT WORK; ENDNOTES; 1. The Dacca Riot, 1941; THE RIOT; CHARACTERISTICS MARKING THE RIOT; ANTI-COMMUNAL RESISTANCE, RELIEF AND REHABILITATION; ENDNOTES; 2. Famine 1943 -- Towards a Hardening of Community Identities
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I. THE FAMINE OF 1943 -- THE RUPTURE IN BENGALI SOCIETYII. THE POLITICS OF RELIEF, REHABILITATION AND COMMUNITY; ENDNOTES; 3. From Community to Communal: The Bengal Secondary Education Bill and the Idea of Pakistan; I. CASTE AND COMMUNITY POLITICS AROUND THE ISSUE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION; II. THE PAKISTAN MOVEMENT; ENDNOTES; 4. The Great Calcutta Killing, August 1946; I. PREPARATIONS BEFORE DIRECT ACTION DAY; II. THE CITY IN THE GRIP OF TERROR; III. THE BLAME GAME; IV. THE 'CROWD' IN THE GREAT CALCUTTA KILLING; V. ANTI-COMMUNAL RESISTANCE; ENDNOTES; 5. Noakhali Riots, October 1946; I. THE RIOTS
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II. PATTERN OF VIOLENCEIII. RELIEF AND RESISTANCE; ENDNOTES; 6. A Test of Faith: Gandhi in Noakhali and Calcutta 1946-47; GANDHI'S NOAKHALI SOJOURN; Gandhi's Peace Strategy; GANDHI'S IMPACT ON MUSLIMS; GANDHI'S PERSONAL LIFE AS AN 'EXPERIMENT'; THE LAST WEAPON OF THE SATYAGRAHI -- GANDHI AND THE CALCUTTA FAST, 1947; ENDNOTES; Concluding Remarks; ENDNOTES; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Barisal; Mymensingh; Dacca; Faridpur; Noakhali; Tippera; Pabna; Khulna; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Pujas; Vratas; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; Private Papers; Oral History Transcripts
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Records of Political OrganizationsOFFICIAL RECORDS; Government of India; Government of Bengal; India Office Records, British Library, London; PUBLISHED OFFICIAL SOURCES; Survey and Settlement Reports; District Gazetteers; Legislative Assembly Proceedings; Unpublished Official Sources; Other Published Sources; Newspapers, Periodicals and Journals; MEMOIRS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHIES AND DIARIES; Novels and Plays; Secondary Readings; Index
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| Abstract
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Looks at the decade of 1940s in Bengal and provides a complete understanding of the pre-partition years.
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Communalism-- India-- Bengal.
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Political violence-- India-- Bengal-- 20th century.
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Riots-- Bangladesh-- Noākhāli District-- History.
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Communalism.
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HISTORY-- Asia-- India South Asia.
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Political violence.
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Riots.
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Bangladesh, Noākhāli District.
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India, Bengal.
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| Dewey Classification
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954/.140359
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| LC Classification
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DS422.C64
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