The fragmentation of Bengal in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. This book provides a review of constitutional and party politics as well as of popular attitudes and perceptions to the partition of Bengal. Bidyut Chakrabarty argues that well before they divorced at a political level, Hindus and Muslims had been cleaved apart by their socio-economic differences. Partition was probably inevitable.
- ISBN10 1860649718
- ISBN13 9781860649714
- Publish Date 1 October 2003
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 1 June 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English