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Bihar in Colonial India: Region in the Making of a Nation

By Aryendra Chakravartty, Janaki Nair (Editor), Mrinalini Sinha (Editor), Shabnum Tejani (Editor)
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By Aryendra Chakravartty, Janaki Nair (Editor), Mrinalini Sinha (Editor), Shabnum Tejani (Editor)
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This book points to the indispensability of the province in shaping and strengthening ideas of the nation in 20th century India. Focusing on the region of Bihar, it shows how its distinctively regional identity was not in opposition to colonial politics or nationalist sentiments, but was itself a product of colonial and national imaginings.

The separation of Bihar, hailed by some as the 'royal province' of India and the cradle of Indian cultural and civilization, realigned the region not as ...