TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chatterjee,Jyotiprasad
AU  - Basu,Suprio
TI  - Left front and after: understanding the dynamics of poriborton in West Bengal 
T2  - Sage series on politics in indian states
SN  - 9789353287238
U1  - 320.84095414 CHA 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
N1  - Rs.1195/-
TRP40/136
N2  - "The politics of West Bengal was long known for the uninterrupted rule of the Left Front from 1977 to 2011. For a long period, the politics of the state was marked by overt absence of caste-, religion- and ethnicity-based contestations and this made West Bengal an exceptional case. Adopting a historical and comparative approach, the book traces the changing nature of politics of West Bengal since the late 1990s. It documents how economic and social degeneration in the state led to increasing caste and identity assertions and left-wing extremist politics. It chronicles the history of the social movements at Singur and Nandigram that ultimately challenged the Left hegemony and initiated the much talked-about poriborton (change) in West Bengal politics"--
ER  -