edited by Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen.
New Delhi :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2016.
1 online resource
Exploring the political in South Asia
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Kol, coolie, colonial subject : a hidden history of caste and the making of modern Bengal / Uday Chandra -- 2. Another history : Bhadralok responses to Dalit political assertion in colonial Bengal / Sarbani Bandyopadhyay -- 3. Partition, displacement, and the decline of the scheduled caste movement in West Bengal / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury -- 4. Partition and the mysterious disappearance of caste in Bengal / Partha Chatterjee -- 5. An absent-minded casteism? / Dwaipayan Sen -- 6. The political of caste and class in Singur's anti-land acquisition struggle / Kenneth Bo Nielsen -- 7. Building up the Harichand-Guruchand movement : the politics of the Matua Mahasangha / Praskanva Sinharay -- 8. Transformative politics : the imaginary of the Mulnibasi in West Bengal / Indrajit Roy -- 9. From client to supporter : economic change and the slow change of social identity in rural West Bengal -- 10. Craft, identity, hierarchy : the Kumbhakars of Bengal / Moumita Sen -- 11. The commodification of caste and politics in Kolkata's Kumartuli / Geir Heierstad.