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	Publisher: K P Bagchi & Co, Kolkata
	Author Snehamoy Chaklader
	Language: English
	Pages: 124
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 280 gm
	Edition: 1987
	ISBN: 8170740118
	HBN890

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About the Book The book is on group conflict and accommodation. The formation of linguistic states coupled with the democratization of political institution have politicized the ethnicity and created a conflict-situation between the linguistic majority and minority groups. Different states have attempted to resolve such conflicts in different ways. Three states of Eastern India, West Bengal, Assam and Tripura, have been selected for case studies. West Bengal provides a typical example of pluralistic pattern, Assam evinces a forcible assimilative pattern and Tripura a frustration-aggression pattern. The causes of the different patterns of relationship in different states have been studied in the back-ground of their respective historical, economic and demographic situations. In the concluding chapter the author suggests ways and means to resolve these conflicts in the mosaic of state life.

About the Author Dr. Snehamoy Chaklader was born in Dacca in 1936 and received his higher education in Calcutta. He passed the B. A. and M. Α. examinations from the University of Calcutta and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the same University in 1974. He has published a large number of books both in English and Bengali on linguistic minority, majority-minority rela-tions, caste politics etc. He has also published numerous papers in scholarly journals and presided over a panel discussion in IX World Congress of Sociology held in Uppsala in 1978. In 1985 he visited Soviet Union under the programme of Indo-USSR Cultural Exchange Programme and delivered lectures on Indian language planning and policy in the Institute of Oriental Studies and in the Institute of linguistics, Moscow. He has also participated in various other International Conferences and Seminars. Dr. Chaklader is now teaching Political Science in B. N. Mahavidyalaya, Itachuna, Hooghly and also in the University of Burdwan.

Preface The book is on group conflict and accommodation. The reorganization of States of India primarily on linguistic consideration could not make the states unilingual. Most of the states have a large number of minorities who encounter ever increasing difficulties in the face of the policy of homogenization of language and culture of the state government. The majority group by virtue of their numerical strength tend to monopolize political and economic power of the state and relegate the minority groups to the subordinate position.

The minority groups, on the other hand, in their effort to preserve their cultural identity, economic interests and social status organize themselves on ethnic lines and move from social space to political space. This gives them a better bargaining and competitive power in the milieu of state politics. Thus the relationships between the linguistic majority and the minority groups have become a vital political issue in many states of India in the post Independence period. But such relationship varies from state to state according to the numerical strength, spatial dispersion etc. of the minorities and the attitude of the majority towards them.

Introduction A majority-minority situation arises when the society is ethnically divided. Incidentally every society, however small it may be, is plural, that is divided into a number of ethnic groups. Not only a society but also an individual in the social spectrum is plural. An individual is not only a member of a particular caste, sect or religion but also affiliated to a linguistic group, national community and so on. He may be, for instance, a Hindu by religion, a Brahmin by caste and a Bengali by linguistic affiliation. But the problem is that all the Hindus are not Bengalis and all the Bengalis are not Hindus. His linguistic affiliation may unite him with all the Bengali speaking people of the country, but that may create a cleavage with the non-Bengali Hindus. Similarly, when he identifies himself with Hinduism he may be in the enclosure of all the Hindus of the country including the Bengalis and non-Bengalis, but he is then separated from the non-Hindu Bengalis, that is, from the Muslim or the Christian Bengalis. If the individual has such variegated identities, what is then his ethnic identity? To put the question in a more general way, what is the basic ingredient of ethnic identity? There is perhaps no particular element common to all the ethnic groups. "Each case", argues Issacs, "develops its own shapes, its own dynamics, its own peculiar intensities" (1975: 33). Patterson defines ethnicity as "that condition wherein certain members of a society, in a given social context, chose to emphasize as their most meaningful basis of primary, extra familial identity certain assumed cultural, national or somatic traits" (1975: 305 in Glazer & Moynihan). Thus there is no fixed variable in determining ethnic identity. It varies from time to time and from place to place. Sometimes a particular variable, say language, may play a dominant ole while at another time religion may assume the ole of identity formation.

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