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Carte Hungry Bengal Janam Mukherjee

Hungry Bengal

War, Famine and the End of Empire

Autor: Janam Mukherjee
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous perio...

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Autor
Janam Mukherjee
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2023
Pagini
344
EAN
9781787389670
Enbook ID
41808950
Editura
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Greutate
404
Dimensiuni
138 x 216

Descriere completă

The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the British/American war against Japan, Bengal stood at the crossroads of complex and contentious structural forces - both domestic and international - which, taken together, defined an era of political uncertainty, social turmoil and collective violence. While for the British the overarching priority was to save the empire from imminent collapse at any cost, for the majority of the Indian population the 1940s were years of acute scarcity, violent dislocation and enduring calamity. In particular there are three major crises that shaped the social, economic and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Hungry Bengal examines these intricately interconnected events, foregrounding the political economy of war and famine in order to analyse the complex nexus of hunger, war and civil violence in colonial Bengal at the twilight of British rule.

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