Electoral Competition and the Gorkhaland Movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Bethany Lacina
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
National Government ◽  
Mass Movements ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The West ◽  
Personal Power

This chapter examines movements for greater local autonomy in Darjeeling since India’s independence. Political leaders generally mobilize to demand autonomy during periods of heightened electoral competition. These movements tend to fade when electoral competition is low. When mass movements have won autonomous institutions for Darjeeling, movement leaders have used these institutions to repress local electoral competition. Without electoral pressure, incumbent leaders in Darjeeling are feckless in pressing autonomy demands. Both the national government in New Delhi and the West Bengal state government in Kolkata have encouraged the anti-democratic features of Darjeeling’s autonomous institutions as a means of maintaining stability. I make this case by showing the parallels in the careers of Deoprakash Rai, Subash Ghisingh, and Bimal Gurung. Each leader de-escalated demands for Darjeeling’s autonomy as his personal power consolidated.

India: Vishwanath S. Naravane: Modern Indian Thought. Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1979, vi, 300p., Rs. 45.

1980 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 435-448
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Indian Thought

India: VISHWANATH S. NARAVANE : Modern Indian Thought. Orient Longman GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: B.M. Taunk: Non-Co-operation Movement in Indian Politics (1919–1924). Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi, 1978, vii, 239p., Rs. 60. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: B.R. Nanda, P.C. Joshi and Raj Krishna: Gandhi and Nehru. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: G. Ram Reddy and B.A.V. Sharma Eds.: State Government and Politics: Andhra Pradesh. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: Ranbir Sharma: Party Politics in a Himalayan State GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: Saroj Chakrabarty: With West Bengal Chief Ministers: Memoirs 1962 to 1977. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: A. Avasthi and Ramesh K. Arora Eds: Bureaucracy and Development: Indian Perspectives. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: Niru Hazarika: Public Service Commissions: A Study.

scholarly journals CHALAMAAN (Ongoing): A documentary film journey aboard the only remaining tram system in India, the Kolkata tram system.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shounak Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The West ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The City

"Chalamaan (meaning “ongoing” in Bengali) is the name of a documentary film and research project based on the last and only remaining tram (streetcar) system in the Indian subcontinent. This system operates in the city of Kolkata, India under the administration of the West Bengal state government and the Calcutta Tramways Company."--Introduction.

The Refugees and the Migrants of West Bengal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizwana Shamshad
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
The People ◽  
East And West ◽  
Bangladeshi Migrants

According to the Census of India in 2001, the majority of the Bangladeshi migrants in India reside in West Bengal. So far there has been no anti-Bangladeshi movement like in Assam or state government initiated deportation measures like in Delhi or in West Bengal. This chapter investigates why this is the case, and it explores the factors that did not encourage the people, and the state government of West Bengal, to make Bangladeshi migration an issue. The chapter contributes to the concept ‘Bengaliness’, which is shared by the Bengalis of West Bengal and Bangladesh. What comes out clearly from the West Bengal discourse on Bangladeshi migrants is the ethno-linguistic and historical affinity of Bengalis in general with the Bangladeshis. The chapter also brings out the subtle but powerful cultural marker of Ghoti–Bangal difference that exists between the Bengalis of East and West Bengali origin.

scholarly journals CHALAMAAN (Ongoing): A documentary film journey aboard the only remaining tram system in India, the Kolkata tram system.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shounak Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The West ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The City

"Chalamaan (meaning “ongoing” in Bengali) is the name of a documentary film and research project based on the last and only remaining tram (streetcar) system in the Indian subcontinent. This system operates in the city of Kolkata, India under the administration of the West Bengal state government and the Calcutta Tramways Company."--Introduction.

A short note on Chinae Hans Muscuovy ducks in Bengal, India

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 93-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Banerjee ◽  
S. Banerjeel
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Poultry Meat ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The West ◽  
Free Range ◽  
Cairina Moschata ◽  
Mule Duck

SummaryMuscuovy ducks (Cairina moschata) are popular as a source of poultry meat. Reports on availability of Muscovies (in the free range system of management) in the eastern region of Indu is lacking. In the West Bengal state of Indu two strains of Muscovies have been identified, the strains resemble Black Muscuovy L 303 and White Muscuovy ducks. Ironically they are known as Chinae haras (Chinese duck). Presently a detailed study is being conducted by the author and is being used to develop a strain of broader duck (mule duck) in the region. Reports on availability of Muscovies in this part of the subcontinent are lacking.

INVESTIGATION OF IMPEDIMENT FACTORS IN PROPERTY TAX REVALUATION PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nor Azalina Yusnita Abd Rahman ◽  
Asma Senawi ◽  
Mohamad Haizam Mohamed Saraf ◽  
Siti Fairuz Che Pin
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
State Government ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Cost Constraints

Property tax is a form of taxation payable by real estate owners on their holdings because of their ownership or possession of the property. In Malaysia, a property tax revaluation is done once every five years or within an extended period as determined by the state government. However, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Malaysia has recorded that most local authorities have not revalued their property for almost 35 years. Thus, the researchers conducted a focus group interview to identify the impediments in a revaluation of property tax among local authorities. The participants consisted of forty-three (43) officers from twentytwo (22) local authorities in the West of Malaysia. Data from focus groups identified were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings from the focus group revealed four (4) main impediment factors, namely (1) lack of knowledge in property tax revaluation paperwork, (2) lack of workforce, (3) cost constraints, and (4) time-consuming.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Denson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Government ◽  
National Council ◽  
Cherokee Nation ◽  
The West ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
History Of

This book began with tourism. In the summer of 1994, a friend and I drove from Bloomington, Indiana, where I attended graduate school, to Florida for a short vacation. As we sped along Interstate 75 through northern Georgia, I spotted a brown roadside sign announcing that, at the next exit, we would find New Echota, a state historic site interpreting the history of the Cherokee Nation. For a brief time in the early nineteenth century, New Echota was the Cherokee capital, the seat of the national government created by tribal leaders in the 1820s. The Cherokee National Council met at New Echota in the years prior to removal, and it was the site of the Cherokee Supreme Court. During a time when the United States and the state of Georgia pressured Cherokees to emigrate to the West, the new capital represented the Cherokees’ determination to remain in their homeland. It was also the place where, in late 1835, a small group of tribal leaders signed the treaty under which the United States forced the Cherokee Nation to remove. I had recently become interested in the history of Cherokee sovereignty and nationhood, and I concluded that I should prob ably know about this heritage attraction. We pulled off the highway and followed the signs to the site....

Virtuous Movements and Dirty Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Miriam Wenner
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Political Leaders

This chapter is concerned with the relationships between virtue, immorality, and politics as they are contested and negotiated within the space of a statehood movement. It explores how political leaders in Darjeeling present themselves as virtuous despite being involved in ‘politics’, which is associated with morally despicable behaviour such as selfishness and corruption. At the heart of such camouflage stands the blurring of the boundaries between what counts as moral and immoral. Yet, leaders’ attempts to respond to idealist imaginations of the movement as untouched from ‘dirty’ politics prove difficult, not only because the constituents perceive their leaders to exploit the movement for private gain, but also because the need to distribute patronage forces them to make compromises with the very state government from which they demand autonomy. Whether the border between virtue and immorality has been transcended is subject to a continuous struggle over political authority and legitimacy.

Vedānta

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
True Self ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Classical Systems ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
The Individual

Indian philosophical speculation burgeoned in texts called Upaniṣads (from 800 bc), where views about a true Self (ātman) in relation to Brahman, the supreme reality, the Absolute or God, are propounded and explored. Early Upaniṣads were appended to an even older sacred literature, the Veda (‘Knowledge’), and became literally Vedānta, ‘the Veda’s last portion’. Classical systems of philosophy inspired by Upaniṣadic ideas also came to be known as Vedānta, as well as more recent spiritual thinking. Classical Vedānta is one of the great systems of Indian philosophy, extending almost two thousand years with hundreds of authors and several important subschools. In the modern period, Vedānta in the folk sense of spiritual thought deriving from Upaniṣads is a major cultural phenomenon. Understood broadly, Vedānta may even be said to be the philosophy of Hinduism, although in the classical period there are other schools (notably Mīmāṃsā) that purport to articulate right views and conduct for what may be called a Hindu community (the terms ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hinduism’ gained currency only after the Muslim invasion of the South Asian subcontinent, beginning rather late in classical times). Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), the great popularizer of Hindu ideas to the West, spoke of Vedānta as an umbrella philosophy of a Divine revealed diversely in the world’s religious traditions. Such inclusivism is an important theme in some classical Vedānta, but there are also virulent disputes about how Brahman should be conceived, in particular Brahman’s relation to the individual. In the twentieth century, philosophers such as Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, K.C. Bhattacharyya and T.M.P. Mahadevan have articulated idealist worldviews largely inspired by classical and pre-classical Vedānta. The mystic philosopher Sri Aurobindo propounds a theism and evolutionary theory he calls Vedānta, and many others, including political leaders such as Gandhi and spiritual figures as well as academics, have developed or defended Vedāntic views.

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