Minorities and the state : changing social and political landscape of Bengal - Dasgupta, Abhijit; Togawa, Masahiko; Barkat, Abul. (New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE ; Tokyo : Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS), 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Group identity -- India -- Bengal; Minorities -- Civil rights -- India -- Bengal; Migration, Internal -- India -- Bengal; Bengal (India) -- Politics and government