The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change critically engages with the political dynamics of caste in West Benga

The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious, logical

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cult

This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.