Bandyopadhyaẏa, Sekhara.

Decolonization in South Asia: meanings of freedom in post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. - New York : Routledge, 2009. - ix, 246 p. ; 25 cm.

1. The arrival of freedom: celebrations, anxieties and realities
2. The discontents of freedom
3. Congress Raj in a 'problem province'
4. The communists: from insurgency to electoral politics
5. The fractured Opposition
6. The 'great adventure': the election of 1952

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India--West Bengal
Politics and government
Decolonization

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