Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal
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Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal
SAGE , Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS), 2011
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
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Description
Minorities and the State discusses the plight of two numerically significant religious minority groups: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India.
The political vicissitudes in India and Bangladesh have stirred up questions relating to citizenship, nationality, and identity. In this volume, academics from India, Bangladesh, and Japan examine the formation of minority identity at the time of partition of India in 1947 and in subsequent decades. The articles emphasize the crises and coping strategies, migration, and state- and local-level politics affecting minorities.
By utilizing data from varied sources like field work, archival research, and secondary sources, this volume explores deprivation and different dimensions of minority life from political, economic, civil society, gender, and literary perspectives.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Abhijit Dasgupta, Masahiko Togawa, and Abul Barkat
The Minorities in Post-Partition West Bengal
The Riots of 1950 - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
On the Margins: Muslims in West Bengal - Abhijit Dasgupta
'Wrestling with My Shadow': The State and the Immigrant Muslims in Contemporary West Bengal - Samir Kumar Das
Partition Refugees on Borders: Assimilation in West Bengal - Tetsuya Nakatani
Political Economy of Deprivation of Hindu Minority in Bangladesh
Living with the Vested Property Act - Abul Barkat
Role of Civil Society in Combating Violence against Religious Minorities during the Post-2001 General Elections of Bangladesh - Rangalal Sen
Hindu Minority in Bangladesh: Migration, Marginalization, and Minority Politics in Bengal - Masahiko Togawa
Status of Hindu Women: Spheres of Human Rights Violation in Bangladesh - Sadeka Halim
The Crises of Hindu Minority as Depicted in the Fictions of Contemporary Bangladesh - Abu Dayen
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