Author: Gossman, Patricia A.
Title: Riots and Victims : Violence and the Construction of Communal Identity among Bengali Muslims, 1905-1947
Description: Boulder [CO], Westview Press, 1999. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xi,186 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Constructions of Ethnicity & Communal Identity; Creating a Political Community: The First Partition of Bengal; The Function of Violence: Renegotiating the Status Order, 1918-1926; The Politics of Violence: Patterns of Organization, 1926-1941; The Muslim League's Struggle for Bengal; Conclusion.

Keywords: Indian Historical Sociology, Colonial Bengal, Communalism, Hindu-Muslim, Religious Conflict, Partition, Bangladesh, South Asia India, Communal Riots, Muslims