Press, partition and famine: Benedict Anderson and the Bengal Emergency of 1905-6

Fraser, Robert (2007). Press, partition and famine: Benedict Anderson and the Bengal Emergency of 1905-6. In: McCleery, Alistair and Brabon, Benjamin A. eds. The Influence of Benedict Anderson. Edinburgh, U.K.: Merchiston Publishing, pp. 59–93.

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Abstract

A consideration of Benedict Anderson's prominent diagnosis of the effects of print capitalism on national alignments in the light of events in Bengal during the First Partition of 1905 and its aftermath, and the press coverage of this sequence of events.

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• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-9553561-1-3, 978-0-9553561-1-7
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• Keywords
• Benedict Anderson; print capitalism; India; Bengal; nationalism; partition; famine; Amartya Sen
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
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• © 2007 The Author
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• Robert Fraser