Burma–Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India

Ghosh, D

Burma–Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India

Ghosh, D

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Citation:: Asian Studies Review, 2016, 40 (2), pp. 156 - 172
Issue Date:: 2016-04-02

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dc.contributor.author	Ghosh, D https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-5954	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-04-02	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Asian Studies Review, 2016, 40 (2), pp. 156 - 172	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1035-7823	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122718
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Asian Studies Association of Australia. The large-scale movement of people between Burma and Bengal in the early twentieth century has been explored recently by authors such as Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith who locate Burma within the wider migratory culture of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia. This article argues that the long and historical connections between Bengalis and Burmese were transformed by the British colonisation of the region. Through an analysis of selected literary texts in Bengali, some by well-known and others by obscure writers, this article shows that, for Indians, Burma constituted an elsewhere where the fantastic and superhuman were within reach, and caste and religious constraints could be circumvented and radical possibilities enabled by masquerade and disguise.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Asian Studies Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/10357823.2016.1158237	en_US
dc.title	Burma–Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India	en_US
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© 2016 Asian Studies Association of Australia. The large-scale movement of people between Burma and Bengal in the early twentieth century has been explored recently by authors such as Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith who locate Burma within the wider migratory culture of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia. This article argues that the long and historical connections between Bengalis and Burmese were transformed by the British colonisation of the region. Through an analysis of selected literary texts in Bengali, some by well-known and others by obscure writers, this article shows that, for Indians, Burma constituted an elsewhere where the fantastic and superhuman were within reach, and caste and religious constraints could be circumvented and radical possibilities enabled by masquerade and disguise.

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