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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Survival and Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation Sankar Prasad Singha The Outcaste (Akkarmashi) Sharankumar Limbale: Hindu: A Novel Towards An Aesthetic Of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies And Considerations Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonials Sharmila Rege: Ooru Keri Siddalingaiah
Unlike Punjab, where a full population exchange between Punjabi Muslims and Punjabi Sikhs/Punjabi Hindus during the partition happened, the same complete population exchange did not happen in Bengal (their population transfer between Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims was gradually slower due to the occurrence of less violence); overall it was ...
Even the low-caste jolhas (weavers) had improved their social standing since 1971. Although several hierarchically arranged families such as the syeds , or sayeds (noble born) and the sheikhs , or shaykhs (also noble born), were noticeable in Bangladesh Muslim society, there were no impenetrable hereditary social distinctions.
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Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj.It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore's twelve novels.