Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal
- New Delhi SAGE 2011
- xxii, 214p. ill.
Minorities and the State discusses the plight of two numerically significant religious minority groups: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India. 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.
9788132105893
2011006871
Group identity
Minorities
Internal Migration
305.56095414 / MIN
Minorities and the State discusses the plight of two numerically significant religious minority groups: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India. 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.
9788132105893
2011006871
Group identity
Minorities
Internal Migration
305.56095414 / MIN