The Mortal God
The Mortal God

Author: Milinda Banerjee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1316996387

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The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian political-intellectual elites as well as South Asian peasant activists, giving particular attention to Bengal, including the associated princely states of Cooch Behar and Tripura. Global intellectual history approaches are deployed to place India within wider trajectories of royal nationhood that unfolded across contemporaneous Europe and Asia. The book intervenes within theoretical debates about sovereignty and political theology, and offers novel arguments about decolonizing and subalternizing sovereignty.

Status and Empowerment of Tribal Women in Tripura
Status and Empowerment of Tribal Women in Tripura

Author: Krishna Nath Bhowmik

Publisher: Gyan Publishing House

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9788178352893

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This book analyzes the social, economic, marital and economic status of Tribal women of Tripura and attempts to answer come in the way of their empowerment. This book can act as a catalyst for stimulating people's campaign for empowering the tribal women of Tripura in reality.

The Bengal Borderland
The Bengal Borderland

Author: Willem van Schendel

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1843311453

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'The Bengal Borderland' constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') has been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, remarkably, been largely ignored by historians.

Refugees, Borders and Identities
Refugees, Borders and Identities

Author: Anindita Ghoshal

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1000165221

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This book examines the impact of Partition on refugees in East and Northeast India and their struggle for identity, space and political rights. In the wake of the legalisation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019, this region remains a hotbed of identity and refugee politics. Drawing on extensive research and in-depth fieldwork, this book discusses themes of displacement, rehabilitation, discrimination and politicisation of refugees that preceded and followed the Partition of India in 1947. It portrays the crises experienced by refugees in recreating the socio-cultural milieu of the lost motherland and the consequent loss of their linguistic, cultural, economic and ethnic identities. The author also studies how the presence of the refugees shaped the conduct of politics in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura in the decades following Partition. Refugees, Borders and Identities will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of refugee studies, border studies, South Asian history, migration studies, Partition studies, sociology, anthropology, political studies, international relations and refugee studies, and for general readers of modern Indian history.