Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal
by
Dwaipayan Sen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of caste-based politics in the region was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal, the leader of the Dalit movement in eastern...