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Journal articles on the topic "Bengal politics"

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Kanjilal, Dr Amitava. "The Limits of Cultural-Economic Explanations of Ethnic Phenomenon: The Case of West Bengal." Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature 6, no. 4 (April 25, 2023): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.51879/pijssl/060415.

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At the crossroad of seventy-five years of India’s experiment with Democracy, several expressions of ethnic identity politics have bloomed in various parts of the nation. The discontent around the notion of Development being ‘unequal’ and ‘unfair’ to some, demands of separate statehood remain visible with varied strength of organisation. West Bengal was no far from the currents of such demands of smaller states based on the rationale of deprivation on cultural and economic grounds. However, the history of West Bengal depicts that the cosmopolitan development of cultural milieu since 19th Century Bengal Renaissance has been much accommodative and on the contrary on political frontiers Bengal has always unique to stand aside the mainstream politics of nationalism in pre-independence period and in conceiving a provincial government not in political alignment to the political party in the power of the Central Government, that caused major deprivations on economic allocations between the Centre and the State. Therefore, any demand of separate state from West Bengal can be refuted on the essential rationale of cultural cosmopolitanism and economic deprivation of West Bengal by the Central Government. The present paper analyses both these rationale with elaborate reference to scholastic explanations already approached.

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Dasgupta, Koushiki. "The Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the First General Election in West Bengal: The Enigma of Hindu Politics in early 1950s." Studies in Indian Politics 8, no. 1 (May 2, 2020): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023020918063.

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The first general elections proved to be a disaster for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bengal in terms of its performance and its failure to make the Hindu Bengalis a consolidated political block. Prior to the election, the party had generated immense hopes and aspirations especially among the refugees from East Bengal. Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the leader of the opposition, appeared to be the sole spokesman of the Bengali Hindus and fought the election with a promise to secure the political fate of the Hindu Bengalis, especially the refugees from East Bengal. But very soon the party lost the essential spirit and enthusiasm to challenge the leftists especially in the refugee constituencies and failed to take a hold over the issues of multiple identities working parallel inside the refugee political space. The Hindu nationalist forces had never been a popular choice in Bengal; however, at least in the decades before partition they managed to make their presence felt in the political mainstream of the province. In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand why the Hindu nationalist parties in general and the Jana Sangh in particular lost its credibility among the Hindu electorate in Bengal after partition.

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Morshed, Adnan. "Modernism as Postnationalist Politics:." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 532–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2017.76.4.532.

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After completing architectural studies in the United States in 1952, Muzharul Islam returned home to Pakistan to find the country embroiled in acrimonious politics of national identity. The young architect began his design career in the midst of bitterly divided notions of national origin and destiny, and his architectural work reflected this political debate. In Modernism as Postnationalist Politics: Muzharul Islam's Faculty of Fine Arts (1953–56), Adnan Morshed argues that Islam's Faculty of Fine Arts at Shahbagh, Dhaka, embodied his need to articulate a national identity based on the secular humanist ethos of Bengal, rather than on an Islamic religious foundation. With this iconoclastic building, Islam sought to achieve two distinctive goals: to introduce the aesthetic tenets of modern architecture to East Pakistan and to reject all references to colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture. The Faculty's modernism hinges on Islam's dual commitment to a secular Bengali character and universal humanity.

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Ruud, Arild Engelsen. "Embedded Bengal? The Case for Politics." Forum for Development Studies 26, no. 2 (January 1999): 235–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.1999.9666111.

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Roy, Sarani. "The “kala–admi” and the “golden-haired, fair-complexioned hero”: Racial Othering and the Question of the Aboriginals in the Fairy Tale Collections of Colonial Bengal." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 25, no. 4 (November 2023): 476–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.25.4.0476.

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ABSTRACT This article discusses how the representational politics of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengali fairy tales was heavily informed by the racial discourses of the time. The racial discourses of colonial Bengal worked in close association with the discourses of anthropology and nationalism. The discourse of ethnographic nationalism prepared the ground for the historical rise of the Hindu, upper-caste, urban, elite, male subjectivity and enabled it to define and “speak” for the so-called “aboriginal” groups in a way that best suited their convenience. The contemporary idea of the “black,” “ugly,”“backward,” and “uncivilized” aboriginals influenced the representation of the rakshasas or the giants in the fairy tales of colonial Bengal. The article analyzes the ways in which the project of fairy tale collection turned into an upper-caste, Hindu, elite discourse in the hands of the Bengali intellectuals, which operated primarily by marginalizing the category of the aboriginals. The article also historically contextualizes the categories of the elite and the aboriginal in connection with the arya-anarya theory of race, popular in nineteenth-century Bengal.

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Chowdhury, Namrata. "Engendering Care in the Politics of the East Bengali Refugee Identity: A Reading of Bengal Partition Narratives Through the Lens of Ecological and Culinary Citizenship." Journal of Ecohumanism 3, no. 1 (January 4, 2024): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/joe.v3i1.3075.

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The ‘politics of care’ has become an essential dialectical discourse within the field of ecofeminism with the intervention of theorist Sherilyn Macgregor. The engendering of care has politicized the figure and the status of the woman within and beyond the domestic space. Further, this discourse has gone beyond the cultural domain of domesticity to realign itself with the understanding of care work in the light of ecological citizenship. In the light of this my paper proposes to revisit South Asian partition historiography to look at the figure of the refugee. I wish to look at the Bengal Partition of 1947 and discern how the East Bengali refugee maneuvers their identity vis-à-vis their claim of ecological and culinary citizenship. Sunanda Sikdar’s novel A Life Long Ago, translated by Anchita Ghatak for Penguin and the recipient of the Ananda Puraskar 2010 award, is a memoir that reproduces the anxieties that are part of the division of Bengal and the subsequent interruption, creation, preservation of the notion of citizenship and the instituting and the drawing of the national border that separates India from Bangladesh, erstwhile East Pakistan. Meanwhile, the anthology edited by Bashabi Fraser, Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter, contains multiple stories that problematize the notion of national borders specifically by challenging these political lines vis-à-vis the culinary code. Through selective stories from the anthology mentioned and Sikdar’s memoir, the paper seeks to address the issue of citizenship and national borders through the realm of the kitchen, food consumption and domesticity and how the gastronomic experience is informed by the ecofeminist rhetoric of the ‘politics of care’. I would also look at Bhaswati Gosh’s debut novel Victory Colony 1950, and Madhushree Ghosh’s culinary memoir Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family, which threaten and dismantle the gender binaries embedded within the discourse of care politics.

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Sarkar, Abhishek. "Rosalind and "Śakuntalā" among the Ascetics: Reading Gender and Female Sexual Agency in a Bengali Adaptation of "As You Like It"." Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 18, no. 33 (December 30, 2018): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.18.07.

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My article examines how the staging of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It is negotiated in a Bengali adaptation, Ananga-Rangini (1897) by the little-known playwright Annadaprasad Basu. The Bengali adaptation does not assume the boy actor’s embodied performance as essential to its construction of the Rosalindequivalent, and thereby it misses several of the accents on gender and sexuality that characterize Shakespeare’s play. The Bengali adaptation, while accommodating much of Rosalind’s flamboyance, is more insistent upon the heteronormative closure and reconfigures the Rosalind-character as an acquiescent lover/wife. Further, Ananga-Rangini incorporates resonances of the classical Sanskrit play Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa, thus suggesting a thematic interaction between the two texts and giving a concrete shape to the comparison between Shakespeare and Kālidāsa that formed a favourite topic of literary debate in colonial Bengal. The article takes into account how the Bengali adaptation of As You Like It may be influenced by the gender politics informing Abhijñānaśākuntalam and by the reception of this Sanskrit play in colonial Bengal.

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ROY, DAYABATI. "Caste and power: An ethnography in West Bengal, India." Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 4 (November 4, 2011): 947–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000680.

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AbstractThis paper explores the institution of caste and its operation in a micro-level village setting of West Bengal, an Indian state, where state politics at grass roots level is vibrant with functioning local self-government and entrenched political parties. This ethnographic study reveals that caste relations and caste identities have overarching dimensions in the day-to-day politics of the study villages. Though caste almost ceases to operate in relation to strict religious strictures, under economic compulsion the division of labour largely coincides with caste division. In the cultural–ideological field, the concept of caste-hierarchy seems to continue as an influencing factor, even in the operation of leftist politics.

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Dulhunty, Annabel. "The politics of caste in West Bengal." Asian Studies Review 44, no. 2 (October 20, 2019): 358–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2019.1678368.

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Stommes, Drew. "The politics of caste in West Bengal." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 56, no. 2 (February 18, 2018): 261–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2018.1435161.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bengal politics"

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Dutta, Papiya. "Caste, society and politics of North Bengal." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1218.

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Dasgupta, Koushiki. "Minor political parties and the language of politics in late colonial Bengal (1921-1947) : attitude, adjustment & reaction." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1216.

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Chatterji, Joya. "Communal politics and the partition of Bengal, 1932-1947." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273384.

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Bose, Sayoni. "The Messy Politics of Land Acquisition in West Bengal." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437580805.

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Bose, Sugata. "Agrarian Bengal : economy, social structure and politics, 1919-1947 /." Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne : Cambridge university press, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36628826g.

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Sinha, Roy Mallarika. "Gender and Politics in Bengal: Women's Participation in the Naxalbari Movement in West Bengal (1967-1975)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487064.

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This dissertation analyses the Naxalbari Movement in West Bengal (1967-1975), a radical movement inspired by the Marxist-Leninist theory ofrevolution and mediated through the Maoist interpretations ofpeasant revolution, from the point ofview of gender. In spite ofbeing one of the well-studied political and social events in postcolonial West Bengal, the gender aspect remains neglected in the historiography of the movement. This is partly a historiographical practice to read the movement - its available academic and literary accounts - with new information and insight, gained principally through women's words. The popular and academic representations ofwomen participants as merely 'supportive', who apparently joined the movement only for 'attractions oflove' instead ofpolitical consciousness, are analysed through women's interpretations of their participation. The critical task is to seek the perfect poise between isolationist celebration ofindividual women and recovery ofdifferent silenced voices. 'Women' is not a composite, ahistorical 'other', waiting to be recovered, but inextricably mapped in the grid ofclass and race relations, colonialism and capitalism. The real and imagined histories of the Naxalbari movement, I argue, are fraught with varied gendered experiences of political motivation, revolutionary activism, and violence. Oral histories ofwomen participants from diverse backgrounds - tribal, workingclass, small-town-based middle-class, and metropolitan middle-class - suggest that gender relations were characterised by subtle nuances ofdomination, negotiation, acquiescence, and resistance. Examining women's experience, not as indisputable facts but as interpretations of selfhood, has emerged as a significant tenet of contemporary feminist theory. The recent critique ofthe representation of third world women as victims per excellence also encourages reading women participants' speech and silence as complex discourses of agency. Multiple meanings ofmagic moments ofwomen's struggle within the ideological and existential worlds ofNaxalbari can be derived from their words. This dissertation foregrounds how conflicts between an enchanted world of emancipation and entrenched patriarchal domination shaped their identities as women, as Naxalites, and as women Naxalites.

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Ruud, Arild Engelsen. "Socio-cultural changes in rural West Bengal." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1995. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2449/.

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The emergence of broad rural support in West Bengal for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) is here studied through the history (1960 to present) of two villages in Burdwan district. The focus is on the relationship between the dynamics of village politics and political and ideological changes of the larger polity. Village politics constitutes an important realm of informal rules for political action and public participation where popular perceptions of wider political events and cultural changes are created. The communist mobilization of the late 1960s followed from an informal alliance formed between sections of the educated (and politicized) middle-class peasantry and certain groups (castes) of poor. The middle-class peasantry drew inspiration from Bengal's high-status and literary but radicalized tradition. However, the establishment and dynamics of the alliance, at the local level, can only be understood within the normative framework of the village. The poor appeared previously as marginal to public exercise of village affairs, but were nonetheless able to manipulate resources available to them (numbers, assertion, norms) and thus achieve some leverage vis-a-vis village leaders dependent on man-support or "moral economy" sentiments for legitimacy. The interests of these groups of poor, particularly of the social or cultural kind since the material resources available were very limited, became crucial in the bonds village leaders sought to create to retain their support. Following on this practice, also the CPM's local party leadership, in the 1980s and 1990s, consistently confirmed social aspirations and status considerations. This leads to the conclusions that not only do communist movements too depend on considerations of social status, honours, and symbolic displays of respect but that the scope for change and the manner in which the communist movement can function at the local level derive from popular perceptions, formed and enacted in villages.

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Bhattacharjee, Dhananjoy. "A.K.Fazlul Huq and bengal politics between the two partitions (1905-1947): currents and cross-currents." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2017. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2707.

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Kanjilal, Amitava. "Politics of gender in performance: study of group theatre reductions during left front rule in West Bengal." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2796.

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Datta-Ray, Mohini. "Monumentalizing Tantra : the multiple identities of the Haṃseśvarī Devī Temple and the Bansberia Zamīndāri." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112331.

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This thesis examines the complex interplay between colonial modernity and Sakta (goddess-centered) devotion in the context of an elite family of zamindars (landholders) in Bengal. One consequence of colonialism in Bengal was the efflorescence of overt Sakta religiosity among Bengal's elite. Religious practice, supposedly "protected" by the colonial order, became the site where indigenous elites expressed political will and, to an extent, resisted foreign domination. I argue that the zamindars of Bansberia in the Hugli district of Bengal were creative agents, engaging and resisting the various cultural ruptures represented by colonial rule in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Employing analyses of archival material, contemporary ethnography, and architectural style, this thesis is an ethnohistory of a modern zamindari-kingdom that locates its political voice in an emblematic Sakta-Tantric temple. It demonstrates the powerful relationship between religion and politics in colonial Bengal and discusses the implications of this strong association in the contemporary context.

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Books on the topic "Bengal politics"

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Sarkar, Kamala. Bengal politics, 1937-1947. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co., 1990.

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Sarkar, Kamala. Bengal politics, 1937-1947. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co., 1990.

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Mahapatra, Anadi Kumar. Tribal politics in West Bengal. Calcutta: Suhrid Publication, 1987.

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Ghosh, Chitra. Women movement politics in Bengal. Calcutta: Chatterjee Publisher, 1991.

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Khan, Bazlur Rahman. Politics in Bengal, 1927-1936. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1987.

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Basu, Sajal. Factions, ideology, and politics: Coalition politics in Bengal. Calcutta, India: Minerva Associates (Publications), 1990.

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Neogy, Ajit K. Partitions of Bengal. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co., 1987.

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Bhattacharjee, Snehangshu. Muslim politics in Bengal: Legislative perspective. Kolkata, India: Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (Kolkata, India), 2019.

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Enayetur, Rahim, and Rahim Joyce L, eds. Bengal politics: Documents of the Raj. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited, 1996.

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Congress politics in Bengal, 1919-1939. London: Anthem, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Bengal politics"

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Paul, Nilanjana. "Partition politics." In Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947, 24–40. London: Routledge India, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429298134-3.

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Chakrabarti, Kaberi. "Women in state politics in West Bengal." In Women in State Politics in India, 273–88. London: Routledge India, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003374862-16.

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Prakash, Om. "Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century Bengal." In On the Economic Encounter Between Asia and Europe, 1500-1800, XV—237—XV—260. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003420750-15.

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Islam, Md Shariful. "Power Politics in the Governance of Bengal Sultanate." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 4899–905. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_2486.

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Islam, Md Shariful. "Power Politics in the Governance of Bengal Sultanate." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 1–7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2486-1.

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SinghaRoy, Debal K. "Populism and transformative politics in West Bengal, India." In The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, 209–17. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429470325-15.

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Islam, Md Shariful. "Power Politics in the Governance of Bengal Sultanate." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 9996–10002. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_2486.

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Dey, Moumita. "Gender Politics and Food Practices in Urban West Bengal." In Food and Power: Expressions of Food-Politics in South Asia, 387–403. B1/I-1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area, Mathura Road New Delhi 110 044: SAGE Publications Pvt Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9789353886059.n19.

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Chamlagai, Abi Narayan. "Nepali Speakers of West Bengal, Politics of Self-Rule, and Political Elites." In Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia, 223–50. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28764-0_9.

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Arnold, Samantha L. "“The Language of Respectability” and the (Re)Constitution of Muslim Selves in Colonial Bengal." In Identity and Global Politics, 83–101. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403980496_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Bengal politics"

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Ghosh, Aditi. "Representations of the Self and the Others in a Multilingual City: Hindi Speakers in Kolkata." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-4.

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This study examines the attitudes and representations of a select group of Hindi mother tongue speakers residing in Kolkata. Hindi is one of the two official languages of India and Hindi mother tongue speakers are the numerically dominant language community in India, as per census. Further, due to historical, political and socio-cultural reasons, enormous importance is attached to the language, to the extent that there is a wide spread misrepresentation of the language as the national language of India. In this way, speakers of Hindi by no means form a minority in Indian contexts. However, as India is an extremely multilingual and diverse country, in many areas of the country other language speakers outnumber Hindi speakers, and in different states other languages have prestige, greater functional value and locally official status as well. Kolkata is one of such places, as the capital of West Bengal, a state where Bengali is the official language, and where Bengali is the most widely spoken mother tongue. Hindi mother tongue speakers, therefore, are not the dominant majority here, however, their language still carries the symbolic load of a representative language of India. In this context, this study examines the opinions and attitudes of a section of long term residents of Kolkata whose mother tongue is Hindi. The data used in this paper is derived from a large scale survey conducted in Kolkata which included 153 Hindi speakers. The objective of the study is to elicit, through a structured interview, their attitudes towards their own language and community, and towards the other languages and communities in Kolkata, and to examine how they represent and construct the various communities in their responses. The study adopts qualitative methods of analysis. The analysis shows that though there is largely an overt representation of harmony, there are indications of how the socio-cultural symbolic values attached to different languages are also extended to its speakers creating subtle social distances among language communities.

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Tasnim, Zerin, Shuvo Ahmed, Atikur Rahman, Jannatul Ferdous Sorna, and Mafizur Rahman. "Political Ideology Prediction from Bengali Text Using Word Embedding Models." In 2021 International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics (ESCI). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/esci50559.2021.9396875.

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Samajdar, Ananya. "Accountability and Performance: A Study of Rural Local Government in the Indian State of West Bengal." In Annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-2403_pssir27.

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Nahar, Lutfun, Zinnia Sultana, Nilufar Jahan, and Ummay Jannat. "Filtering Bengali Political and Sports News of Social Media from Textual Information." In 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icasert.2019.8934605.

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Jones, V., R. Halliday, M. King, and Shafiqul Islam. "The realisation of the 6.2km long Padma Multipurpose Road and Rail Bridge in Bangladesh." In IABSE Conference, Kuala Lumpur 2018: Engineering the Developing World. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0652.

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<p>The Padma is one of the world’s mightiest rivers, being a distributary of the Ganges and the Jamuna rivers, winding its way through Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal. It is a major division between the country’s south-west region and the capital city and economic centre of Dhaka. During the monsoon season, the Padma River becomes fast flowing and capable of causing deep scour. Crossing the Padma with a 6.2km long steel truss bridge, carrying road and rail, presents technical challenges to the client, consultants and contractors, including significant river training work and deep foundations in an alluvial flood plain, where the rock formation lies several km below the river bed, and in an area subject to considerable seismic activity leading to possible liquefaction of the soil. Other challenges include major vessel traffic and ship impact. Once these technical challenges are overcome, the construction of the bridge will bring considerable social, political and economic advantages to Bangladesh and development to the south-west region, giving greater access to the country’s second port at Mongla and to the proposed Payra Port, which is currently under construction. This paper describes some of the technical challenges faced and overcome in bringing this landmark multipurpose crossing to fruition.</p>

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Hendayana, Yayat. "TEKS DAN KONTEKS DALAM JEJAK BUDAYA TAKBENDA STUDI KASUS: BABASAN DAN PARIBASA SUNDA." In Seminar Nasional Arkeologi 2019. Balai Arkeologi Jawa Barat, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24164/prosiding.v3i1.24.

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Babasan (perumpamaan) dan paribasa (peribahasa) yang terdapat dalam bahasa Sunda, merupakan warisan budaya takbenda yang masih tetap hidup dan digunakan oleh masyarakat Sunda hingga saat ini. Bahasa Sunda termasuk rumpun bahasa-bahasa Austronesia, yang mempunyai hubungan erat dengan rumpun bahasa Austro-Asia. Keduanya disebut sebagai rumpun bahasa Austris. Bahasa Sunda merupakan anggota dari keluarga bahasa yang besar dan penting sekali di dunia. Bahasa Sunda mengenal tiga tahapan perkembangan, yaitu bahasa Sunda Buhun (kuno), bahasa Sunda Klasik (peralihan) dan bahasa Sunda Kiwari (Masa Kini), yaitu bahasa Sunda yang mulai digunakan sejak tahun 1900-an, ketika kolonialisme Belanda mulai melancarkan politik balas budi (politik etis). Sejak saat itulah awal mula berkembangnya perumpamaan dan pribahasa dalam bahasa Sunda, yang masih tetap digunakan di zaman kini. Babasan dan paribasa tersebut merupakan teks yang diciptakan oleh para leluhur (Sunda) ketika itu, yang sudah tentu disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan zamannya, dengan konteksnya. Zaman sudah berubah. Konteks pun berubah pula. Babasan dan paribasa produk para leluhur Sunda itu tentu saja tidak semuanya cocok untuk digunakan pada masa sekarang, yang sudah jauh berubah dari masa lalu. Pikiran bahwa semua produk masa lalu bersifat adiluhung (berkualitas sangat tinggi) tidak sepenuhnya benar.. Terhadap babasan dan paribasa yang merupakan produk masa lalu itu harus dilakukan langkah-langkah penyesuaian bertahap agar dapat diterapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari zaman kini. Langkah-langkah bertahap itu ialah: (1) reseleksi, (2) redeskripsi, (3) reorientasi, dan (4) reimplementasi.

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