Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar

Decolonization in South Asia: meanings of freedom in post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - London : Routledge, 2009. - 246p. : 24cm. - Routledge studies in South Asian history. .

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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Decolonization -- India -- West Bengal.
Decolonization.
West Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century.

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