University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2013 Labors of Representation: Cultivating Land, Self, and Community Among Muslims in Late Colonial Bengal Ananya Dasgupta University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. Labors of Representation: Cultivating Land, Self, and Community Among Muslims in Late Colonial Bengal Abstract LABORS OF REPRESENTATION: CULTIVATING LAND, SELF, AND COMMUNITY AMONG MUSLIMS IN LATE COLONIAL BENGAL Ananya Dasgupta Lisa Mitchell This dissertation studies how the specificity of regional practices of cultural productions, ideological strands, forms and practices of civil associations, and styles of literary expressions among Muslims inflected the Pakistan movement in late colonial Bengal. Using wide-ranging sources that include vernacular religious tracts, the popular genre of Muslim improvement texts, pamphlets of tenant-peasant associations, journals, diaries, autobiographies, and literary