Minorities and the state
Subtitle: changing social and political landscape of Bengal
By: edited by Abhijit Dasgupta, Masahiko Togawa, and Abul Barkat
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9788132105893
Subjects: Politics and government; Civil rights; Group identity; Internal Migration; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The minorities in post-partition West Bengal : the riots of 1950 / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; title: On the margins : Muslims in West Bengal / Abhijit Dasgupta; title: "Wrestling with my shadow" : the state and the immigrant Muslims in contemporary West Bengal / Samir Kumar Das; title: Partition refugees on borders : assimilation in West Bengal / Tetsuya Nakatani; title: Political economy of deprivation of Hindu minority in Bangladesh : living with the vested property act / Abul Barkat; title: Role of civil society in combating violence against religious minorities during the post-2001 general elections of Bangladesh / Rangalal Sen; title: Hindu minority in Bangladesh : migration, marginalization, and minority politics in Bengal / Masahiko Togawa; title: Status of Hindu women : spheres of human rights violation in Bangladesh / Sadeka Halim; title: The crises of Hindu minority as depicted in the fictions of contemporary Bangladesh / Abu Dayen.