Mahmud’s Bangali language monograph, Bangali Musolman Proshno, argues that the national historical narrative of Bengali Muslims has racialized and Orientalized the entire population of peasant Muslims (150 million people, or about 80 percent of the country’s population). This has served to protect the power of the ruling elite since the British left South Asia. The book exposes the continuity of this discourse from Hindu nationalist writers in the nineteenth century through key publications in the post-colonial context and offers solutions for decentering a narrative that has become constitutive of repeated authoritarian state projects.

Last modified

• 05/18/2023

Creator

• Mahmud, Hasan

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-97fv-xv96

Subject

• Bengali Muslims

Publisher

• Swore O Publisher

Language

• Bengali

Keyword

• Bengali Muslims

Date created

• 2022

Resource type

• Book

Rights statement

• In Copyright