A paper on refugee policy in West Bengal in the 1950s (The Refugee Movement: Another Aspect of People's Movements in West Bengal in the 1950s and 1960s, by Sucharit Sengupta and Paul Banerjee, Policies and Practices, No. 80) is detailed discussed how refugees have become a central part of the country's Left politics. The movements in West Bengal were so intense that they changed the political landscape of the country.
RESEARCH BRIEFS (2016)
However, over the past 16 years, a growing literature has appeared on the disunity of refugees in West Bengal. With the rise of cultural studies in West Bengal, the refugee experience was reduced to the memory of the refugees.
A Study of Anti-Tram Fare Hike Resistance and Teachers’ Movement
As some existing works show, refugees played a key role in this movement. The government insisted on the involvement of hooligans and "anti-socials" in this agitation.
West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966
The new state in the Indian Union comprised about 1/3 of the territory of united Bengal (before independence), but had to endure the pressure of a large number of (mostly Hindu) refugees from the eastern side of Bengal (which later became East Pakistan and, since 1971, Bangladesh). The first type was an angry reaction against the police actions/government handling of the situation.
JP Movement in Bihar
The Nonlocal Entanglement of Violence and ‘People’: A Study of Bihar Movement, 1974
The split between Bhave and JP is one of the most interesting moments in Bihar Movement politics. In exceptional cases, structured interviews will be conducted with some participants and leaders of the movement.
Marxian Literary Debates and Discourses
Violence in the 1970s Marxist cultural debates have not always been peaceful exercises of mind, attitude, vision and weltanschaung. In the early 1970s, a new dimension was added by acts of "cultural revolution" to which the Naxalites indulged.
From Outspoken Admiration to Incisive Critique
Indeed, Sumanta Banerjee's The Simmering Revolution is the most objective and authoritative account of the Naxalite insurgency. To always remain aware of the aesthetic condition whose fulfillment conveys a timeless dimension to the creative text. iii).
REPORTS (2016)
Consultative Meeting
28 February 2016
As a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Lila worked in Jalpaiguri and Rangpur districts. Lila Mazumder did not join the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) and gradually became a marginal figure in politics.
PUBLIC LECTURES (2016)
Core and Contours of Popular Movements in India in the Coming Future
Bright Lights and Shadows: History and Politics of Labor and Law in the Indian Film Industry.
Bright Lights and Shadows: Histories and Politics of Labour and Law in the Indian Film Industry
PUBLICATIONS (2016)
Policies and Practices
Policies and Practices
Policies and Practices
RESEARCH BRIEFS (2017)
Popular Politics, Popular Upsurge, and the Revolt in the Sixties and Seventies of the Last Century
Popular Politics, Popular Revival and the Revolt in the 1960s and 1970s. In short, the question of the political topic arose directly under specific circumstances, cutting many philosophical-ideological knots. This calls for a greater dialectical understanding of the relationship between popular movement autonomy and popular unrest and the party's political-organizational strategy of the insurrection.
The Cultural-Creative Dimension of the Naxalite Movement
Nadia
- Partition and Nadia
- Food Movement in Nadia
- Naxal Movement in Nadia
Most of the migrants came from Kushtia, the district created by the split of Nadia. Nadia, and particularly Krishnanagar, was one of the major locations of the 1966 food movement. Particularly in Nadia, most of the prominent student faces of the Food Movement joined the CPI (ML) by the late 1960s.
Midnapore
A very important role was played by the students of the district, especially those studying in Biprada's Pal Chowdhury Polytechnic in Krishnanagar. Some of the bidi workers like Keshto Biswas, Robi, Mani Adhikari also joined the movement and went to the rural areas of the districts. More than twenty thousand peasants participated in this struggle to take possession of the crops.
Birbhum
The Left Front was created when the repressive climate of the Emergency eased in January 1977. Ahead of the subsequent elections to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in June 1977, seat-sharing talks between the Left Front and the Janata Party broke down. The election result came as a surprise to the Left Front itself, as it had offered 52 percent of the seats in the square before the election to share talks with the Janata Party.
REPORTS (2017)
The consultative meeting on people's movements coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the Naxalbari movement. The nature and trajectory of leftist movements in the three post-independence/partition districts of Nadia, Midnapore and Birbhum were discussed at. The issue of social justice also arose in the background of the accidental defeat of the leftist movement in general and the Naxalite movement in particular.
Research Workshop
Making of a Populist Government: A Study of Karpoori Thakur’s regime Presented by: Mithilesh Kumar
Karpoori's "subcategorisation", as Jha explained, was based on hard facts and evidence and was therefore not merely a populist tactic. English Hataao Andolan” etc., according to Jha, must be seen in the context of the times and the ethos of that time. Finally, he mentions that Karpoori Thakur's greatest contribution was probably to make social democracy a lived reality, rather than an imagined one.
Occupy College Street: Notes from the Sixties Presented by: Ranabir Samaddar
Furthermore, regarding Karpoori's politics, he explained that it is imperative to take into account the conflicts that arise within the same party and organization.
The Cultural-Creative Dimension of the Naxalite Movement Presented by: Subharanjan Dasgupta
He noted that the paper could have spoken of works that gave a new dimension, rather than society's common themes of revolution and change; works that reconstructed mythological stories. He further noted that the paper could have benefited from discussion of Little Magazine's role in spreading revolutionary ideas. He drew attention to the importance of discussing and reflecting on this multifaceted nature of the movement.
Utpal Dutta's Teer, Anal Gupta's Rakter Rangor, Amal Roy's Aat Jora Khola Chokh are just a few examples of the theaters of the time. He also pointed out that the movement had shades and fractures that are obscured by the constant glorification of the present age. He also drew attention to the significant role played by visual mediums of art such as Cinema; he took the example of Mrinal Sen.
Long March or Garden Path? The Left Front’s First Term in West Bengal (1971- 1982)
In the first session of the workshop, the panelists focused on "People's Movements and Popular Politics in North East and North Bengal". The discussants were Abhijit Majumdar, Chitra Ahanthem and Soibam Haripriya. Regarding the implementation of the policy, he inquired about the situation on the ground. People were at the center of this process, not at the center of the Look East policy.
PUBLIC LECTURES (2017)
Questions of caste and community became central to much of the research as part of The second part of the narrative is about the movement for a separate State of Telangana. Since the early 20th century, political mobilization for change and renegotiation of power in Assam has centered on the peasantry.
PUBLICATIONS (2017)
Policies and Practices
Policies and Practices
RESEARCH BRIEFS (2018)
Collaborative Workshop
Their understanding of the pulse of the people lies in their close association with this society. The similarities of these cultural texts recreated in the lectures evoke people's memories and connect these leaders closely to the hearts of the people. I would also try to find out how important role emotional cultural content plays in any type of movement, ie.
International Conference
India's dismal world ranking in the arena of democratic participation and political consciousness is symptomatic of deep institutional obstacles that have historically weakened the dynamic growth of democratic spirit and strong democratic institutions. However, it was felt that in the open world of Allah, there were no real friends of the Rohingya. This paper examines the impact of coastal erosion on women, women's experiences of the displacement process and the situation of the displaced through the lens of gender and development.
Enforced Victimhood: Women in Refugee Movement
The paper traces the milestones in the journey of the Act and the role of civil society organizations and the medium used to engage people in the movement. In conclusion, the paper points out the fact that the RTI Act was one of the most people-friendly acts as it started with the involvement of people. If the Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha case can be called a third act in Bangladesh's illegal immigration saga, what we have now is a court that has assumed jurisdiction under Article 142 and deals with social, cultural, religious and economic rights of the citizens of Assam. .
REPORTS (2018)
People got bogged down in the details and the bigger questions that arose during the course of the study were ignored. One of the challenges that were present in the topic was to understand the starting point. Anushaya Collure elaborated on the popular history of the government and the incidents that took place in Sri Lanka.
Book Release
21 December 2018
PUBLICATIONS (2018)
Book cover of From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade (Editor Ranabir Samaddar, Orient Blackswan, 2018). The book argues that without understanding the folk sources of the insurgency of that time, the era of Naxalite insurgency will remain beyond our understanding. The book also has six powerful short stories that were written during the Naxalite decade and have a touch of the real life of that time.
Policies and Practices
From Popular Movements to Insurgency: The Naxalite Decade (Editor: Ranabir Samaddar, Orient Blackswan & Routledge, 2018). Many chapters of the book highlight for the first time the unknown peasant heroes and heroines of the era, analyze the nature of the urban rebellion and show how the urban rebellion of the time anticipated the street protests and occupation movements that would shake the world forty and fifty years later. Some of the essays reflect deeply on why the movement failed and was ultimately alienated. From People's Movements to Insurgency: The Naxalite Decade will be extremely important to students and scholars of history, politics, sociology and culture, as well as journalists and political and social activists in general.
The Research Collective (2016, 2017 & 2018)
Sibaji Pratim Basu, Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. Jha, Vice President, Calcutta Research Group, Professor and Dean of the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Sudeep Basu, Assistant Professor, Center for Studies in Social Management, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat.
