Minorities and the State
Changing Social and Political Landscape of Bengal
- Abhijit Dasgupta - University of Delhi, India
- Masahiko Togawa - Hiroshima University, Japan
- Abul Barkat - University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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.
| Introduction | Abhijit Dasgupta, Masahiko Togawa, and Abul Barkat |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Index |
It stands out in this collection for the rigor of its research and the passionate clarity of its argument…these essays brings a new angle of vision to the debate about minority rights...the editors are to be congratulated for bringing together scholars who work on both Bengals in one of the first ‘transnational’ studies of South Asian minorities.
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