Indian Nationalism & Great Divide

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.