The Rural Origins of the Partition of India in 1947 : The Case of Bengal

• Project/Area Number: 21401024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Asian history
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: NAKAZATO Nariaki 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 研究員 (30114581)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 南アジア / インド / パキスタン / ベンガル / ナショナリズム / コミュナリズム / 分離独立 / 大衆動員 / 東洋史 / 地域研究 / バングラデシュ

Research Abstract

This study attempts to assess how far the communal propaganda made inroads into rural Bengal in the 1940s by studying the government reports on the membership of the Muslim League and on the activities of volunteer organisations under the major nationalist forces. It reveals that both of them recorded an explosive increase only after 1945. This may suggest that the historical contingencies which happened to coalesce during the brief period between 1945 and 1947 made a more important backdrop for the partition of India than the gradual growth of communalism since the end of the nineteenth century.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 『パル判事』を上梓するまで (2011)
  • Author(s): 中里成章
  • Journal Title: アジ研ワールド・トレンド Volume: 193 Pages: 48-57
• [Presentation] The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and Indian Nationalism (2012)
  • Author(s): Nariaki Nakazato
  • Organizer: Paper presented at International Conference on'"A Definitive Decade": India in the 1950s'
  • Place of Presentation: National Archives of India, New Delhi, INDIA
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-24
• [Presentation] The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and Indian Nationalism (2012)
  • Author(s): Nariaki Nakazato
  • Organizer: International Conference organised by the National Archives of India on '"A Definitive Decade" : India in the 1950s'
  • Place of Presentation: Conference Hall, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, India(招待講演)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-24
• [Presentation] Memories and Counter-memories : Writing about the Partition Riots of India (2009)
  • Author(s): Nariaki Nakazato
  • Organizer: Paper presented at Colloquia on' Trauma, Memory, History'
  • Place of Presentation: University of London, London, UK
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-05
• [Presentation] Memories and Counter-memories : Writing about the Partition Riots of India (2009)
  • Author(s): Nariaki Nakazato
  • Organizer: Colloquia on "Trauma, Memory, History"
  • Place of Presentation: Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-05
• [Book] パル判事-インド・ナショナリズムと東京裁判 (2011)
  • Author(s): 中里成章
  • Total Pages: 256
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
• [Book] パル判事 (2011)
  • Author(s): 中里成章
  • Total Pages: 256
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
• [Remarks] 1.中里成章「現代インド最新事情6アヨーディヤーとゴードラー-インドの宗教ナショナリズムの歴史と現状-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 134, 2011, pp.54-59
• [Remarks] 2.中里成章「東京裁判パル判事の実像」『北海道新聞』2011年6月2日夕刊5面
• [Remarks] 3.中里成章現代インド最新事情5インドの実力-人間開発報告書と無償義務教育権利法-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 131, 2011, pp.46-51
• [Remarks] 4.中里成章「現代インド最新事情4オバマ大統領夫妻のディーワーリー-インドの外交戦略-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 129, 2011, pp.65-70
• [Remarks] 5.中里成章「現代インド最新事情3ICカードとカーストの間-インドの2011年センサス-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 126, 2010, pp.33-37
• [Remarks] 6中里成章「バングラデシュへの歩み-独立前史」『地球の歩き方バングラデシュ2011～2012年版』ダイヤモンド社, 2010, 212-213
• [Remarks] 7.中里成章「現代インド最新事情2ナノの迷走-インドの工業化と農民-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 125, 2010, pp.30-34
• [Remarks] 8.中里成章「現代インド最新事情1「不可触民」州首相の登場-カースト制はどこまで変ったか-」『経営センサー』〈東レ経営研究所〉,査読無, 124, 2010, pp.42-46