Abul Barkat

Masahiko Togawa

Abhijit Dasgupta

Minorities and the State discusses the plight of two numerically significant religious minority groups: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India. The political vicissitudes in India and Bangladesh have stirred up questions relating to citizenship, nationality, and identity. In this volume, academics from India, Bangladesh, and Japan examine the formation of minority identity at the time of partition of India in 1947 and in subsequent decades. The articles emphasize the crises and coping strategies, migration, and state- and local-level politics affecting minorities. By utilizing data from varied sources like field work, archival research, and secondary sources, this volume explores deprivation and different dimensions of minority life from political, economic, civil society, gender, and literary perspectives.

Changing Social and Political Landscape of Bengal

Minorities and the State

A study highlighting contributions of the Bangladeshi diaspora to their host or adopted countries, and the need to engage increasing number of Bangladeshi diaspora in critical issues of their country of origin.

Abul Barkat

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