Beyond Nation: A Re-consideration of Akbar Ali Khan's "Discovery of Bangladesh: Explorations into the Dynamics of a Hidden Nation"

Binayak Sen (binayak71@yahoo.com)

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2000, vol. 26, issue 1, 125-162

Abstract: In 1880, Bankimchandra noted that "Bengalis have no history" and charted out an agenda for nationalist historiography: "Bengal must have a history, or else there is no hope for it. Who will write it? You will write it, I will write it, all of us will write it. Every Bengali will have to write it." Bankim's views on history were not exceptional, nor was his nationalist call to history writing.1 After all, history is the source of nationhood. Conversely, nationalism, like tradition, is much about history, about "pastness

Keywords: Villages; Nationalism; Development studies; Despotism; Traditions; Communities; Peasant class; Nationhood; Elites; Indian literature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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