A Review of Ayan Guha's The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling the Continuity and Change

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Abstract

A Review of Ayan Guha's The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling the Continuity and Change

Keywords

Namasudras, Bhadraloks, Bengal exceptionalism, Matuas

References

GUHA, AYAN. (2022) The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling the Continuity and Change, Leiden and Boston: Brill.

GUPTA, MANIBINA, (2019) “Understanding Bengal’s Namasudras, Who are Divided between TMC and BJP”, The Wire, Feb 28. https://thewire.in/caste/understanding-the-history-of-bengals-namasudras-who-are-divided-between-tmc-and-bjp

SINHARAY, PRASKANVA, (2012) “A New Politics of Caste,” Economic and Political Weekly 47, Nº 34: 26– 27.

SINHARAY, PRASKANVA, (2014). “The West Bengal’s Election Story: The Caste Question in Lok Sabha Elections,” Economic and Political Weekly 49, Nº 16: 10– 12.

Author Biography

Shubhalaksmi Raychowdhury, Assistant Professor

Shubhalaksmi Raychowdhury completed her Masters in International Relations with Political Science from Jadavpur University in the year 2018 and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in a government aided college in West Bengal, India.  She  is also pursuing her doctoral research on caste politics of West Bengal and is keenly interested in this topic

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.321

Published

2025-10-19

How to Cite

Raychowdhury, S. (2025). A Review of Ayan Guha’s The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling the Continuity and Change . Indialogs, 12(2), 163–167. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.321

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