Showing posts with label Bengal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bengal. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 September 2013

India, Gorkhaland, Bengal Nepal and the question of nationality

From: Outlook Magazine, 16 September 2013

bengal: gorkhaland
Enter The Scythe
Mamata picks a risky question of nationality
[by] Dola Mitra


Are They Not Indian?

The India-Nepal border in north Bengal is porous, unguarded by any border security force like the SSB
Defence ministry has intelligence that some neighbour(s) are fuelling the Gorkhaland movement
The 1950 Indo-Nepal

Friday, 6 September 2013

Colonial Cousins: Communalism and Nationalism in Modern India

From H-Net

Rakesh Batabyal. Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-1947. London: Thousand Oaks, 2005. 428 pp. $97.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7619-3335-9.

Reviewed by Anirudh Deshpande (Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2007)

Colonial Cousins: Communalism and Nationalism in Modern India

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