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      The Politics of Caste in West Bengal
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      The Politics of Caste in West Bengal book

      Edited ByUday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 6 October 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge India
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686318
      Pages 288
      eBook ISBN 9781315686318
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Chandra, U., Heierstad, G., & Nielsen, K.B. (Eds.). (2015). The Politics of Caste in West Bengal (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686318

      ABSTRACT

      This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the politics of and scholarship on West Bengal, and how caste relations have permeated the politics of the region until today. The essays presented here dispel the myth that caste does not matter in Bengali society and politics, and make possible meaningful comparisons and contrasts with other regions in South Asia.

      The work will interest scholars and researchers in sociology, social anthropology, politics, modern Indian history and cultural studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction

      ByUDAY CHANDRA, GEIR HEIERSTAD, AND KENNETH BO NIELSEN

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Kol, coolie, colonial subject: a hidden history of caste and the making of modern Bengal

      ByUDAY CHANDRA

      chapter 2|25 pages

      Another history: Bhadralok responses to Dalit political assertion in colonial Bengal

      BySARBANI BANDYOPADHYAY

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Partition, displacement, and the decline of the Scheduled Caste movement in West Bengal

      BySEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY AND ANASUA BASU RAY CHAUDHURY

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Partition and the mysterious disappearance of caste in Bengal

      ByPARTHA CHATTERJEE

      chapter 5|22 pages

      An absent-minded casteism?

      ByDWAIPAYAN SEN

      chapter 6|22 pages

      The politics of caste and class in Singur’s anti-land acquisition struggle

      ByKENNETH BO NIELSEN

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Building up the Harichand-Guruchand movement: the politics of the Matua Mahasangha PRASKANVA SINHARAY

      chapter 8|24 pages

      Transformative politics: the imaginary of the Mulnibasi in West Bengal

      ByINDRAJIT ROY

      chapter 9|23 pages

      From client to supporter: economic change and the slow change of social identity in rural West Bengal

      ByARILD ENGELSEN RUUD

      chapter 10|24 pages

      Craft, identity, hierarchy: the Kumbhakars of Bengal

      ByMOUMITA SEN

      chapter 11|23 pages

      The commodifi cation of caste and politics in Kolkata’s Kumartuli

      ByGEIR HEIERSTAD
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