ISBN:
9788132105893
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 214 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Minorities and the State
DDC:
305.5/6095414
Keywords:
Minorities Civil rights
;
Migration, Internal
;
Group identity
;
Migration, Internal - India - Bengal
;
Electronic books
;
Bengal (India) Politics and government
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
The minorities in post-partition West Bengal : the riots of 1950 / Sekhar BandyopadhyayOn 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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