West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday conveyed the message of "harmony, peace and unity" from Furfura Sharif, ...
There is difficulty in lumping together all the Muslims resident in Bengal as an ethnic category. Many of those in the small Muslim elite were Urdu-speaking Muslims who did not think of themselves ...
The chief minister, who had last visited the shrine — deemed holy by countless Bengali Muslims — in 2016, was mocked earlier ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Furfura Sharif, a significant shrine for Bengali Muslims, promoting ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday attacked her right wing critics for questioning her visits to the Muslim religious places, asking why she would always be targeted for attending ...
The colonial prejudice against Bengali Muslims began with the Battle of Plassey and the treason-aided defeat of Sirajuddaula in June 1757. That bias became more entrenched a hundred years later ...
Sufia Uddin's research interest has focused on constructions of the Bengali-Muslim religious community from the colonial to the contemporary period. Her work examines the many Bengali expressions of ...
Assam Health Minister Ashok Singhal’s controversial remarks targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims, known as Miyas, have sparked ...