The Visible ‘Caste Gaps’ amid an ‘Invisible’ Caste System in West Bengal, India: A Study of Discrimination in Bengali Society
The invisibility of the caste system in Bengal is so firmly ingrained in the psyche of the upper-caste Bengali Hindu population that any acknowledgement of the same by the bhadralok class appears to be a pipe dream. This moral high ground of the bhadralok directly stands antithetical to the rampant...
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| Main Author: | Manas Patra |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brandeis University Library
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Caste |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/caste/article/view/676 |
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