Cities in Bengal. Space for nationalistic emotions

• Authors: Moroń Marek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The European concept of nationalism became a useful instrument in creating new identities of peoples of South Asia. In Bengal, traditional identities were given political dimensions, and a number of emotion building symbols, narrations, invented traditions and characteristics of the land, were employed to attract the people to the idea of a particular nationalism. The role of cities in creating the nationalisms of Bengal is discussed in the present paper. The examples of Dhaka, Kolkata and Murshidabad are considered on the one hand, whereas on the other there is an attempt of a comparison between the role of these three cities and the influence of the countryside and the rural landscape of Bengal in appealing to the sentiments of Bengalis in their nationalistic discourse. Conclusions are submitted for further considerations.

Keywords

EN

Bengal; nationalism; city; rural landscape

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 40
• Pages: 301-318

Contributors

author

Moroń Marek

• Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.19