Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. It will be of interest to SA history, colonialism and end of empire, labour studies, Islamic Studies & Muslim social and cultural history.

Ananya Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Muslim's Burden: Riba and the Value of Labor; Chapter 3: The Making of Democratic Islam: Changing Ideas of Muslim Political Representation; Chapter 4: From Respect to Redistribution: The Hegemony of Praja Identity; Chapter 5: Imagining Pakistan: Islam, the Individual, and Egalitarianism in Bengali Muslim Literary Praxis; Conclusion