Sectarian Politics and Ethno-Nationalism in North Bengal and North-East India : Insurgency, Political Machinery and Development/
by I Sarkar and Anjashi Sarkar
- New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications, 2019
- 320p,; 22cm.
CONTENTS: Introduction Section A: 1. Dimensions of Partition Politics in Late Colonial Bengal: Dilemma and Protests of the Backward Class Communities of North Bengal. 2. Politics of Annexation: A Case Study of Cooch Behar (An Indian Princely State). 3. Problems Investigated: Nationality Question, Politics of Ethnicity and Separatism in Contemporary India. 4. The Kamatapur Movement: Demand for a Separate State in North Bengal. 5. Demand for a Separate Statehood of Gorkhaland in Darjeeling Hills Region. 6. The Question of Separate State as an Identity and Existence: Reflections on the Greater Cooch Behar Movement in Northern Part of Bengal. (a) Movement for Greater Cooch Behar in North Bengal, (b) The Greater Cooch Behar Movement in All India Perspective. Section B 7. Politics of Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in North-East India. 8. Bodo Movement-Myth and Reality. 9. Understanding Linguistic Complexities and Investigation of Identities: A Case Study of Assam. 10. Revisiting the 'Problematic Immigration' of Assam: A Glance at NRC and Dispossession of the Bengalis. 11. Essential Agents of South Asian Degeneration: Relocating the Challenges and Constraints towards Inter-State Relations. Conclusion. Includes Appendices, Bibliography & Index.