Becoming Hindus and Muslims: reading the cultural encounter in Bengal, 1342-1905 (some verses in Bengali)

Dey, Saumya

This book begins by interrogating the assumption that coherent religious identities emerged in the Indian subcontinent only in the nineteenth century, when the colonial state initiated the census and made it necessary for Indians determinately to identify themselves as Hindus or Muslims. The kavyas, thus, he argues, formed an emotional inheritance which impacted the literature and sense of hist...

Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers

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