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The book is a memoir of the author's time in British India as a veteran soldier. [6] 1937 The Land of the Lingam: Arthur Miles It cannot be imported into India. [3] The book is about Hinduism, caste and phallicism. [10] 1940 Mysterious India: Moki Singh The book cannot be imported into India. [3] The book purportedly contained stereotypes. [11 ...
Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja) (Shame) is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja/lôjja means "shame" in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages . The book was written about the violence, rape, looting and killings of Bengali Hindus that took place in December 1992 after the destruction of ...
Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community over centuries, in relation to caste-based oppression and systemic discrimination.
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Being Bengali: At home and in the World, London and New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 32–47. "Caste, Class and Culture in Colonial India", in S. Z. H. Zafri (Ed.) Recording the Progress of Indian History: Symposia Papers of the Indian History Congress 1992–2010, Delhi: Primus Books, 2012, pp. 225–239.
The Bengali Hindus constitute of numerous endogamous castes, which are sometimes further subdivided into endogamous subgroups. The caste system evolved over centuries and became more and more complex with time. In the medieval period, several castes were boycotted by the ruling classes from time to time and this isolation continued till the ...
In order to help to view texts in Bangla (Bengali) properly, you need to have your computer set up to see web pages encoded in Unicode Bangla scripts. To do this, you need to have a Unicode capable browser and Unicode Bangla fonts. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox's latest versions support viewing Bangla scripts once you install the fonts.
The New Surma is a proprietary font. Noto fonts provides an open source font for the script. Syloti Nagri was added to the Unicode Standard in March 2005, with the release of version 4.1, and is available on Apple devices. [41] Other fonts include Mukter Ahmed's Fonty 18.ttf, developed from manuscripts to include traditional Sylheti numbers.