Examines community-oriented formations and communal polities in pre-Partition north India, highlighting the centrality of the experience of Muslim minority provinces such as Bihar during the Partition. This book shows how community, religion and nation in Bihar in the 1940s were intertwined.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Negotiating nations

2. Claiming Pakistan

3. Resisting Hindutva

4. Redoing South Asia

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

This book examines community-oriented formations and communal polities in pre-Partition north India, highlighting the centrality of the experience of Muslim minority provinces such as Bihar during the Partition. It shows how community, religion and nation in Bihar in the 1940s were intertwined.Itwill interest those in history, politics, minority & diaspora studies, sociology, and South Asian studies.