'No matter how, Jogendranath had to be defeated': The Scheduled Castes Federation and the making of partition in Bengal, 1945-1947

Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-364

  Sen, Dwaipayan ^a  

^a The University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Bengal; Jogendranath Mandal; partition; Scheduled Castes Federation; the politics of caste and communalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865454682     PISSN: 00194646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0019464612455273     Document Type: Article

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