Bengalis in Burma

ISBN-13: 9781032148694 / Miękka / 2023 / 172 str.

Parthasarathi Bhaumik

Opis

The book looks at Bengali migrations and settlements in Burma from 1886 until the end of the British rule in Burma in 1948.

Spis treści

1. Prologue 2. Historical Background of Burma-Bengal Cultural Relations 3. Describing Burma Mulook: Burma in Bangla Literary Discourses (1886–1937) 4. Distrust and Riots (1937–1948) 5. World War II and Burma: Heroism, Violence and Exodus (1938–48) 6. Epilogue

O autorze

Parthasarathi Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He co-edited Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886–1948). He worked with the British Library, UK as a Chevening Fellow, and built a database on ‘Nationalism, Independence, and Partition in South Asia (1900–1950)’. He is presently the Joint Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and engaged in archiving resources pertaining to the history and cultures of South Asia.