Losing
the Plot: Political Isolation of West Bengal is a comprehensive account
of West Bengal’s political history tracing the changing leadership,
ideologies, and discourse from the birth of modern ideas and nationalism
in the state of Bengal which eventually spread across India to its
steady movement away from the national mainstream in recent times.
The
book delineates the political character of the state and its people,
the dream of its early leaders, and the shattering of the same in course
of time. The author has analyzed in great detail the rift between
Bengal’s leadership and the rest of India since the days of nationalism.
He explores West Bengal’s regional political narrative and its
continuing isolation from the national mainstream despite changes in
government. The cultural, economic, and social preponderance of West
Bengal in the past has given way to an unhappy decline because it has
failed to engage with its politics in an effective manner.It is the story of a state that has lost its plot!
Hardback • 428 pages • INR 795 • ISBN 978-93-91125-21-9 • Non-fiction/Politics
This
book traces the political narrative of West Bengal from the birth of
modern ideas in Bengal in the nineteenth century to the contemporary
political scene unfolding in the state today.
•
The
book delves into the political character of the state and its people,
the dream of its early leaders and the shattering of the same in course
of time.
• The rift between Bengal’s leadership and the rest of India since the days of nationalism has been analysed in great detail.
• This
account of West Bengal’s political history explores the regional
political discourse and the state’s continuing isolation from the
national mainstream despite changes in government.
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