The electoral decline of the organised Left in West Bengal politics has given rise to intellectual speculation about the increasing possibility of caste politics. In this context, this article investigates whet
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AMARTYA SEN is just the person to write about the politics of identity and its dangers. Identity is a tricky idea, and in the wrong hands tricky ideas can be put to wicked mischief. The guiding thought of this wise, impassioned essay is that ethnic, religious and other such labels are of...
The Congress had gone into West Bengal elections to lose. Despite Prasada making scores of calls and sending repeated messages to Rahul Gandhi and other Central leaders to come to Bengal and campaign, there was no response from Delhi. It soon dawned on Jitin Prasada that he had been sent ...
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For politics, Hindi has a new word, rājtantra, , which is the tantra, the "basis, chief doctrine, theory," of rāj, "kingship." kāma, , is pleasure, which is a concern that also may be confined to the householder, but it can also exist in attenuated form, or as a matter of...
Caste has played a very marginal role in the politics of West Bengal since independence. This article argues that that in post-colonial West Bengal caste has been a victim of circumstances which have privileged discourses such as religion, nation and class over that ...
The politics of caste in West Bengaledited by Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, And Kenneth Bo Nielsen, New Delhi, Routledge India, 2015, 288 pp., US$47.88 (paperback)Caste is central to discussions about politics, identity and social change in India. Yet, in the state of West Bengal, caste...
Thus, Guha has masterfully built a case in favour of continuing the inconsequentiality of caste in West Bengal politics.PRATICK MALLICKAcharya Prafulla Chandra CollegePacific Affairs
Politics of Identity in West Bengal-Analysis of Two Identities: Caste and ClassThis paper is aimed at enquiring the different modes of political demonstration/expression underpinned by caste hierarchical structure of the society living in the west Bengal. Naxalite movement has curtained the internal ...