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Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal / edited by Abhijit Dasgupta, Masahiko Togawa, and Abul Barkat.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--India--Bengal.
- Group identity.
- Minorities--Civil rights--India--Bengal.
- Minorities.
- Migration, Internal--India--Bengal.
- Migration, Internal.
- Bengal (India)--Politics and government.
- Bengal (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 214 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text discusses the enormity of problems faced by two numerically significant religious minority groups - Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613235398
- 9788132119036
- 8132119037
- 9788132112945
- 8132112946
- 9781283235396
- 1283235390
- 9788132107668
- 8132107667
- OCLC:
- 747410640
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