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Minorities and the State discusses the plight of two numerically significant religious minority groups: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal, India.
The political vicissitudes in India and Bangladesh have stirred up questions relating to citizenship, nationality, and identity. In this volume, academics from India, Bangladesh, and Japan examine the formation of minority identity at the time of partition of India in 1947 and in subsequent decades. The articles emphasize the crises and coping strategies, migration, and state- and local-level politics affecting minorities.
By utilizing data from varied sources like field work, archival research, and secondary sources, this volume explores deprivation and different dimensions of minority life from political, economic, civil society, gender, and literary perspectives.
Political Economy of Deprivation of Hindu Minority in Bangladesh: Living with the Vested Property Act
Political Economy of Deprivation of Hindu Minority in Bangladesh: Living with the Vested Property Act
Why Enemy/Vested Property Act: Historical Background
The process of communal disharmony, disruption, and disintegration in this part of the world started with the colonial ‘divide and rule’ policy in Bengal and got momentum with the evil spirited ‘two nation theory’. This process was further institutionalized through the enactment of the state-sponsored Enemy Property Act (EPA) by the Pakistani regime during the 1965 Indo-Pak War (that lasted for only 17 days in September 1965). The Pakistani ruling elites’ purpose was very simple—reducing the number of Bengali speaking population of East Pakistan by driving out a considerable part of ...
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