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Caste and Partition in Bengal

The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

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Caste and Partition in Bengal

The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened their political autonomy. They were the worst victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as the 'burden' of a frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated in fenced refugee camps where life was unbearable, and then dispersed to other parts of India - first to the Andaman Islands and the neighbouring states, and then to the inhospitable terrains of Dandakaranya, where they could be used as cheap labour for various development projects. This book looks critically at their participation in Partition politics, the reasons for their migration three years after Partition, their insufferable life and struggles in the refugee camps, their negotiations with caste and gender identities in these new environments, their organized protests against camp maladministration, and finally their satyagraha campaigns against the Indian state's refugee dispersal policy. This book looks at how refugee politics impacted Dalit identity and protest movements in post-Partition West Bengal.

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0192859722

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Caste and Partition in Bengal

The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

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The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

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0192675826

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SAARC at Crossroads

The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia

By: Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

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SAARC at Crossroads

The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia

By: Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

The Birth Of South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation (Saarc) In 1985 Marked A New Beginning For The Seven South Asian Countries India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka And Maldives. For The First Time, These Countries Made And Institutionalized Effort To Forge Multilateral Cooperation Among Them. But, Even After Twenty Years Of Existence Of The Saarc, The Leaders Of The South Asian Countries Are Usually Much More Comfortable In Dealing With The Countries Outside The Region Than They Are With Themselves, And The Past For Them Remains The Present. Therefore, The First Twenty Years Experience Of This Regional Organization Can Hardly Put Saarc In The Sane Category Of The European Union(Eu) Or Even In That Of Association Of South Asian Nations(Asean). While The Latest Phase Of Globalization Must Have Forced The Leaders Of The Saarc Countries To Rethink Their Relationship Vis-A-Vis One Another And To Work For A Free Trade In South Asia, But The Turbulent Years Are Yet To Be Left Behind. But Why Could Not Saarc Succeed When Many Other Regional Organization Are Reaching New High And Who Were At Fault? This Book Is Humble Attempt To Find Probable Answers To These Serious Questions That Have Been Bothering The People Of South Asia For Quite Some Times.

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8187374462

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9788187374466

Exploring India's Maritime Connectivity in the Extended Bay of Bengal

By: Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury,Pratnashree Basu,Sohini Bose

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Exploring India's Maritime Connectivity in the Extended Bay of Bengal

By: Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury,Pratnashree Basu,Sohini Bose

This report makes an appraisal of the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic dimensions of the linkages between India’s east coast and the ‘extended Bay’—Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia—with respect to port logistics, trade interactions, disaster management and strategic convergences. The aim of this study is three-fold: a) to examine the existing nature of port and commercial linkages between India and the aforesaid littorals and explore how these linkages can be strengthened; b) to examine the vulnerabilities of the littorals in terms of natural calamities and to analyse how and to what extent humanitarian assistance and disaster management can be regionally governed; and c) to explore the Bay of Bengal as a maritime space to understand the geostrategic construct of Indo-Pacific.

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Caste and Partition in Bengal

Caste and Partition in Bengal

Caste and Partition in Bengal

Caste and Partition in Bengal

SAARC at Crossroads

SAARC at Crossroads

Exploring India's Maritime Connectivity in the Extended Bay of Bengal

Exploring India's Maritime Connectivity in the Extended Bay of Bengal

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