The story of Bengal partition (1947) cannot be understood through a general analysis of the so-called “high politics` of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League. There are many ‘silences` in the pre histories of partition as well as in the making of nation states in India and Pakistan afterwards. Historians have laid scant attention on the role played by the Muslim business and mercantile communities in the modern history of south Asia. In ...
Minor Political Parties and the Politics of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-1947)
