| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The minorities in post-partition West Bengal : the riots of 1950 / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay -- On 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. |
| Summary |
This text discusses the enormity of problems faced by two numerically significant religious minority groups - Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Group identity -- India -- Bengal.
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Group identity. |
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India -- Bengal. |
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Minorities -- Civil rights -- India -- Bengal.
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Minorities -- Civil rights. |
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Bengal (India) -- Politics and government.
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Migration, Internal -- India -- Bengal.
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Migration, Internal. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dasgupta, Abhijit.
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Togawa, Masahiko.
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Barkat, Abul.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Minorities and the state. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE ; Tokyo : Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS), 2011 9788132105893 (DLC) 2011006871 (OCoLC)704907737 |
| ISBN |
9788132107668 (electronic book) |
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8132107667 (electronic book) |
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9788132112945 (ebook) |
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8132112946 (ebook) |
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9788132105893 |
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8132105893 |
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