How Long to Read The Bengal Borderland

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bengal Borderland?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 33 minutes to read The Bengal Borderland by Willem van Schendel

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') has been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, remarkably, been largely ignored by historians.While South Asia is poorly represented in borderland studies, the study of South Asian borderlands appears indispensable because here a major and intensely contested experiment in twentieth-century border making took place. Without direct reference to the borderlands as a historical reality it is not possible to understand how post-colonial societies in South Asia developed, the extent to which South Asian economies actually became bounded by borders, or the ways in which national identities became internalized.This groundbreaking new volume brings the border back in, to inscribe the constantly shifting borderlands into the larger historiography of post-1947 South Asia. In examining this crucial region, Willem van Schendel closely examines this crucial region, tracing the new geographies thrown up by Partition, further reconfigured by over half a century of social, political and cultural negotiation and struggle, and exploring how they have exerted an immense influence over the course of human events in South Asia.The Bengal Borderlands challenges existing assumptions about the nature of relationships between people, place, identity and culture, and raises particularly urgent questions in the context of globalization, with its predictions of the 'end of geography' and a borderless, homogeneous world.This book will interest historians, geographers, political scientists and economics, as well as South Asianists and migration experts, and will appeal to academics, students and practitioners.

How long is The Bengal Borderland?

The Bengal Borderland by Willem van Schendel is 445 pages long, and a total of 113,475 words.

This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bengal Borderland Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 20 minutes to read The Bengal Borderland aloud.

What Reading Level is The Bengal Borderland?

The Bengal Borderland is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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