Ethnic identity and religion in the India-Bangladesh borderlands
By: Antu Saha ; with a preface by Subhadra Channa.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780773452602
Subjects: Bengali (South Asian people) -- India -- West Bengal -- Ethnic identity; Bengali (South Asian people) -- Bangladesh -- Ethnic identity; Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- India -- West Bengal; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Bangladesh; Hinduism -- Social aspects -- India -- West Bengal; Islam -- Social aspects -- Bangladesh
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical perspectives; title: Methodology and field experience on borderland; title: Physical features and social organizations on borderland; title: Historical backdrop of the problem; title: Construction of identities and the socio-cultural situation on borderland; title: Syncretic tradition and conflict resolution.