Getting to know you, or the formation of inter‐Asian identities

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Notes

1. Badruddin Umar’s Bhasha Andolon Prasanga: Katipay Dalil (1985) is the best record of the language movement of 1952.

2. For a very detailed analysis of Bankim’s use of language in his novels, see Partha Chatterjee (1994).

3. Anthologized in Vidyasagar Rachanablai (Chandra 1987: 682–683).

4. Partha Chatterjee’s essay ‘Bengal politics and the Muslim masses, 1920–47’ holds up the divisions of class and the oscillation between the peripheral or mofussil religions, as a Bengali Muslim identity sought political expression in the period (Chatterjee 1985: 254–273).

5. This conjuncture has been the topic of recent scholarship as shown in an article published in the IACS journal (Sengupta 2009).

6. Mary Louise Pratt’s book Imperial Eyes (1992) has been the most influential book in framing the reference for a reading of these travels.