Suranjan Das
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This volume reconsiders Kashmir and Sindh questions in the context of insights provided by the recent literature, which relates ethnic politics in multi-ethnic Third World countries to the non-convergence of state and nation. When decolonisation results in the construction of national frontier that does not rest on a synchronisation of ethnic and state boundaries cross-border loyalties amongst significant sections of the population survive the artificial ...
Elections in South Asia in the 1980s and 1990s have produced many surprises. Notwithstanding the initial scepticism voiced by many a western political analyst and despite interludes of dictatorships in one or two countries, democracy as a form of governance has won a general acceptance in the region. Electoral politics in the subcontinent aptly demonstrates this fact. This volume draws together studies by internationally acclaimed scholars on national, provincial ...
The present volume is not a research publication in the conventional sense of the term. It is a collection of available documents on the historic 1959 Food Movement, which proved to be a turning point in the political history of West Bengal. This collection should be an important source-material contemporary West Bengal. The present documentary on the Food Movement consists of six parts. The first comprises documents of the Communist Party of India and its mass ...
This book is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Eastern Command of the Indian Army and a team of three professional researchers. Designed to acquaint the readers with an authoritative history of Fort William, it has tried to steer a middle course in the face of two methodological opposites; a coffee table publication and a research monograph. There has been an attempt to weave a historical narrative in a form that would appeal to academics, ...