45 research outputs found
Book review: Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengupta (Eds), Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On
No full text Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengupta (Eds), Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2017, 355 pp., ₹1095, ISBN: 9789386689566 (Hardbound). </jats:p
Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat
No full textDemocratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding of it by the poor may have been reflected in the ballot box of last Panchayat election held in 2008. If 'only alternative of the left is better left', then the left strategy of democratic decentralization must have to be replaced by alternative model with more accountability, less corruption and abolition of those clientilsm.Democratic decentralization, participation, access, control, sustainable development, clientelism
Trans Asia Photography Review
No full textParution du volume de printemps de Trans Asia Photography Review intitulée “In Translation” avec des traductions en anglais d'articles sur l'histoire de la photographie au Bengale, en Corée, au Vietnam et en Chine. Il propose des comptes rendus d'ouvrages. URL : http://tapreview.org/ Au sommaire “Zenana Studio: Early Women Photographers of Bengal”, from Taking Pictures: The Practice of Photography by Bengalis, by Siddhartha Ghosh Translated by Debjani Sengupta The Development of Photo Studi..
The Partition's Afterlife: Nation and Narration from the Northeast of India and Bangladesh
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Uncanny Landscapes and Unstable Borders: Politics and Identity in Geo-Narratives of the Partition (2005–10)
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