Revisiting geographies of nationalism and national identity in Bangladesh

Das, Tulshi Kumar; Bhattacharyya, Rituparna; Sarma, Pranjit Kumar

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“…The 1951 NRC included those citizens who were born on or before 26 January 1950, or had been residing in India for at least five years before 26 January 1950, which was the benchmark date. However, with the continued flow of implacable and unabated illegal migration, the honourable Apex Court ordered for a fresh NRC in 2013 taking the cut off date as 24 March 1971, two days before Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan (Das et al, 2020). In the NRC review process, 65 million documents and 32.9 million people were scrutinised bearing an expense $178 million of taxpayers money.…”

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“…8 Seemingly, with the symbol of Ship driving in water, the Assam Jaitya Parishad (AJP) was 'stateless'. Of these 2 million, many are indigenous population of Assam and the Hindu refugees who fled Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 (Das et al, 2020), who had failed to furnish appropriate documents. This final (draft) of the NRC list, which escalated controversy remains sub judiced in the honourable Apex Court following the move by the state government praying for 20% sample reverification of names already incorporated in the draft NRC in those districts bordering Bangladesh and a 10% sample reverification of names in the rest of the districts (Singh, 2021a).…”

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Assembly Elections of India, 2021: Revisiting Assam

Sarma¹,

Bhattacharyya

2021

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In India, Assembly Elections were held in Assam, West Bengal, Kerela, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the first half of 2021. Driving this study is an attempt to analyse the election results of the state of Assam where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies, Mitrajot or National Democratic Alliance (NDA), successfully defeated the Indian National Congress (INC), and its allies, Mahajot (Grand Alliance). Drawing primarily upon secondary data and applying GIS techniques, the study makes a critical analogy of how Mitrajot managed to accomplish victory. This is a solicited article. Submitted: 10 May 2021; Accepted: 24 June 2021.

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Assembly Elections of India, 2021: Revisiting Assam

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Bhattacharyya

2021

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“…But despite Roy's efforts to call to attention the Eastern borders, what remains elusive is that the experience is there on both the sides of the border drawn. And the Bangladesh side has devoted ample attention to state policies and politics (Ranjan, 2016) and the recent focus on 'creole nationalism' in Bangladesh, and the role of language and culture (Das, Bhattacharyya, & Sarma, 2020). Recent efforts to unearth testimonies surrounding the Partition and the Bangladesh Liberation War has resulted in (Das C., 2017) which too takes up from the methodological standpoint of memory studies to elaborate on the war, the violence and the resistance.…”

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The Politics of Cultural Memory ad Culinary Nationalism: Revisiting the Bangladesh Liberation War through Nadeem Zaman’s In the Time of the Others

Chowdhury¹

2021

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The Partition of the Indian subcontinent has been an area rife with scholarship and with the increasing turn towards memory studies, I propose to revisit the site of the borders from the field of gastronomy. The discursive practices employed in the mapping of memories through fictional landscapes and narratives by Nadeem Zaman, the Bangladeshi-American author will potentially open up the spatial coordinates to interpretation, with the focus on the eastern borders and specifically the Bangladesh Liberation War. The history of the nations will be revisited in an attempt to register the challenges of cultural opposition through the culinary registers. The culinary landscape authored by Nadeem Zaman addresses the gaps in the cultural memory of the nationalist movement at the heart of the Bangladesh Liberation War. In The Time of the Others by Nadeem Zaman would re-write the ideas nationalism, through alternate spaces, highlighting the 'culinary nationalism'. The paper also proposes to situate the culinary register with the broader discipline of memory studies and claim its space in what Alleida Assmann would call the 'archive', though 'trauma' studies have dominated the 'canon' of cultural memory of the Eastern borders of the Indian subcontinent and the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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“…The national anthem, national songs, dress, protected animal species, birds, ecology and the rest will add further spice. Clearly, nationalism is multi-layered and multidimensional-the dynamics are rooted in the ideological bases and s sentiments of people to get organised as movements or rally around a cause (Das et al, 2020). Just like the Ugandans and the Congolese that trade at the Kasindi border amicably (Pulla, 2014) coexisting nationalisms have allowed people within European Union to move into each other's' nations until recently and were not met with alien treatment.…”

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“…Although some of the slogans in the recent past may be pre covid a new forms of reaching self-sufficiencies within nations have also been pursued as part of new nationalism., for instance, the US slogan 'America First' used by President Trump, or the idiom 'Make in India' by Indian Prime Minister Modi are examples of driving nationalism trough development (Bhattacharyya and Pulla, 2019). Critics surely can argue that these may be rhetorical, nonetheless intrinsic in the notion of nationalism aimed at working towards robust economic development (Das et al, 2020).…”

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Growing Nationalism Exacerbated by COVID 19: Editorial Essay

Pulla¹

2020

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For a long time, we have witnessed the rise of nationalism in Asia and many nations in Europe. However, it seems that the virus from Wuhan added fuel to the fire. In the second half of March 2020, the US President Donald Trump referred to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the Chinese virus. I am sure he did that intentionally. A great media war ensued after this between the two countries and vital ally such as Australia too made a statement following President Trump. Mr Scott Morrison remained a shade more polite, nevertheless believed that the coronavirus emanated in Wuhan, "likely in its wildlife wet markets" (ABC News, 2020). Not to be outdone, the editor of the state-run Global Times, Hu Xijin, described Australia as "chewing gum stuck on the sole of China's shoes". "Sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off," Hu posted on Weibo (ABC News 2020). These cacophonies lead to the question-is nationalism a bad one? The Bad Nationalism? Unfortunately, this seems to be the new nationalism gyrated from the propaganda war between the US and China, to begin with. Nevertheless, a series of actions followed in many countries. In those early months, a truck filled with medical supplies was stopped at the German-Swiss border, after German Chancellor, Angela Merkel decided to stop most exports of protective medical equipment. A diplomatic spat between Germany and its neighbours, Austria and Switzerland ensued (Vogel, 2020). It is alleged that the US hijacked mask shipments in a rush for coronavirus protection from France.

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Revisiting geographies of nationalism and national identity in Bangladesh

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Assembly Elections of India, 2021: Revisiting Assam

Assembly Elections of India, 2021: Revisiting Assam

The Politics of Cultural Memory ad Culinary Nationalism: Revisiting the Bangladesh Liberation War through Nadeem Zaman’s In the Time of the Others

Growing Nationalism Exacerbated by COVID 19: Editorial Essay

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