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The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors
Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes
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2022
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In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that various patterns of amicability and antipathy have been generated towards Muslims over the last six hundred years and these patterns emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes. The core of the book is a set of translations of the Bengali writings of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), and Annada Shankar Ray (1904–2002). Their lives were deeply interwoven with some Hindu–Muslim synthetic ideas and subjectivities, and these involvements are articulated throughout their writings which provide multiple vignettes of contemporary modes of amity and antagonism. Barua argues that the characterization of relations between Hindus and Muslims either in terms of an implacable hostility or of an unfragmented peace is historically inaccurate, for these relations were modulated by a shifting array of socio-economic and socio-political parameters. It is within these contexts that Rabindranath, Nazrul, and Annada Shankar are developing their thoughts on Hindus and Muslims through the prisms of religious humanism and universalism.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4258-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4259-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Religious Borderlines across Bengali Landscapes No access
Vedic Roots and Colonial Routes No access
Indian Idioms for Islam No access
Hindus and Muslims in Stratified Bengal No access
Conclusion: Amity and Opposition No access
Notes No access
From Imperial Peripheries to Muslim Homelands No access
The Beautiful God on Bengali Landscapes No access
Muslim Roots and Hindu Routes in Precolonial Bengal No access
Hindus and Muslims in Modernist Milieus No access
Social Alterities across Undivided Bengal No access
Conclusion: Thresholds of the Twentieth Century No access
Notes No access
The Muslim Self and Its Hindu Neighbors No access
Communal Contours across Bengali Borderlines No access
Islam in Rabindranath’s Religiosity No access
India in Nazrul’s Islam No access
Hindus and Muslims in Annada Shankar’s Two Bengals No access
Conclusion: Ideas of India No access
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1. “Hindu and Muslim”9 No access
2. “The Right to Justice”10 No access
3. “Coat or Chāpkān”11 No access
4. “Bengali Lessons for Muslim Students”12 No access
5. “The Chairperson’s Address”13 No access
6. “Honest Means”14 No access
7. “A Hindu University”15 No access
8. “The Public Good”16 No access
9. “High and Low”17 No access
10. “Hindu and Muslim”18 No access
11. “Swami Shraddhananda”19 No access
12. “Greater India”20 No access
13. “Hindu and Muslim”21 No access
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1. “Untouchability”18 No access
2. “Hindus and Muslims”19 No access
3. “Temple and Mosque”20 No access
4. “True Education”21 No access
5. “The New Age”22 No access
6. “The Awakening of Neglected Strength”23 No access
7. “We Are the Band of the Wretched”24 No access
8. “My Path”25 No access
9. “A Monument to Dyer”26 No access
10. “Scenes from Calcutta Grief-struck at Lokamanya Tilak’s Death”27 No access
11. “Muslims in Bengali Literature”28 No access
12. “Muharram”29 No access
13. “Truth”30 No access
14. “The Cultivation of Muslim Culture”31 No access
Notes No access
1. “What I Believe and What I Do Not Believe”12 No access
