TY - BOOK AU - Abhijit Dasgupta,Ed AU - Togawa,Masahiko,Ed AU - Abul Barkat,Ed TI - Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal SN - 9788132105893 U1 - 305.56095414 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE KW - Group identity KW - Minorities KW - Internal Migration N2 - 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 ER -