• ISBN13: 9789380607771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: June 15, 2014
• Pages: 211
• Original Price: INR 950.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 499 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General

Interrogating Politics and Society: Twentieth-Century Indian Subcontinent broadly addresses three themes relevant to South Asian history: communalism, nationalism and the social underworld. Focusing on communal riots and patterns of communal mobilizations in twentieth-century subcontinent, the essays in this volume enrich our understanding of an issue that continues to plague our body politic

Professor Suranjan Das is Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University, and Honorary Director, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. His publications include Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947; Kashmir and Sindh: Nation- Building, Ethnicity and Regional Politics in South Asia; Indo-Uzbek Relations: Past, Present and Future etc. He had been to major institutions of higher learning in Europe and the USA on visiting assignments. He was a British Academy Visiting Professor in January-February 2000.