Cities in Bengal. Space for nationalistic emotions Cover Image

Cities in Bengal. Space for nationalistic emotions
Cities in Bengal. Space for nationalistic emotions

Author(s): Marek Moroń
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Bengal; nationalism; city; rural landscape

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 13/2016
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 301-318
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English