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The Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871-1977
The Sacred and the Secular Bengal Muslim Discourses 18711977 Author:Tazeen M. Murshid This interdisciplinary study in socio-political and intellectual history examines the tension between religious and secular perceptions among the intelligentsia in Bengal in matters pertaining to their social, cultural, and political lives. It explores the wide impact of their local Indian, trans-Indian, colonial, and post-colonial experiences a... more »nd predicts a continued struggle between religious and secular forces to determine the nature of the state in the foreseeable future.« less