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Title Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal / edited by Abhijit Dasgupta, Masahiko Togawa, and Abul Barkat
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE ; Tokyo : Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS), 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 214 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Muslim gnd
Subject Group identity -- India -- Bengal
Minorities -- Civil rights -- India -- Bengal
Migration, Internal -- India -- Bengal
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Group identity
Migration, Internal
Minorities -- Civil rights
Politics and government
Hindu
Minderheitenpolitik
SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- Politics and government
Subject India -- Bengal
Bangladesch
West Bengal
Form Electronic book
Author Dasgupta, Abhijit
Togawa, Masahiko
Barkat, Abul
ISBN 9788132107668
8132107667
9788132112945
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9788132119036
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9781283235396
9786613235398
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