Imagining Quit India
War, Politics and the Making of a Mass Movement, Bengal 1940-45
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 October 2025
- ISBN 9781009650441
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An emotional and revolutionary history of the Second World War, through the prism of the Quit India Movement in Bengal.
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This book traces an emotional and revolutionary history of the Second World War, through the prism of the Quit India Movement in Bengal. While this last mass-movement of colonial India echoed at an all-India level, Bengal was exceptional in the 1940s due to its geostrategic position after Japan's entry and Calcutta's industrial base. Rooted in the domestic and international context of War, the author explores three interconnected themes - that the Quit India movement in Bengal was not so much the product of 'war of ideas', but was imagined and sustained by a complex synthesis of both Gandhian and revolutionary ideas of political 'action', the violent response by the colonial state in India reveals complex undercurrents of imperial anxieties of a post-war political order where it was fast losing out to the resurgent USA and the conflict between legal and moral ideas of political responsibility displayed by imperial Britain and Gandhi.
'This is an intriguing exploration of the Quit India movement. Rich in primary source material, nuanced in analysis, and thoughtful in expression,&&&160;Imagining Quit India&&&160;adds much to our understanding of colonial and imperial history, the history of South Asia, and historiographies of emotion, nationalism, war and political activism. Divided into three chapters. Roy's analysis is impressive in its detail and its impact. I'm sure it will be useful to students and scholars of diverse fields as well as providing a thought-provoking read.' Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield
Table of Contents:
Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1. British Bole Baap Re Baap: The Second World War, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties; 2. A Cacophony of (Ir)responsibilities - The Politics of 'Responsibility' around the Movement; 3. The Quit India Movement in Bengal 1942-45; Concluding Remarks;Afterword; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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