Bengal is synonymous for political violence. Why?
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Analysis: Prachi Yadav
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Markers
0:00 Introduction
2:11 Naxal motion: Nineteen Sixties to Seventies
5:16 Left rule (1977-2006)
8:54 Rise of Mamata Banerjee (2006-2014)
10:20 BJP’s affect (2014 onwards)
11:28 Conclusion
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Sources:
0. Introduction
https://twitter.com/AmitShah/standing/1324039207950688256
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/information/politics-and-nation/as-the-fight-for-political-space-gets-brutal-in-west-bengal-a-look-at-its-violent-past/articleshow/80190011.cms
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/03/09/81877295.html?pageNumber=10
https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/deep-dive-the-long-trail-of-political-violence-in-west-bengal-1748852-2020-12-11
https://theprint.in/politics/political-violence-takes-centre-stage-in-bengal-as-bjp-trinamool-race-for-2021-heats-up/548823/
https://www.thehindu.com/information/nationwide/other-states/panel-meet-sees-tmc-bjp-spar-over-bengal-political-violence/article33618374.ece
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/information/asia/india-elections-modi-west-bengal-political-violence-14488294
https://www.moneycontrol.com/information/traits/current-affairs-trends/political-violence-in-west-bengal-home-ministry-submits-report-to-election-commission-6603591.html
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/bengal-the-politics-of-bloodshed/cid/1808445
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/more-than-300-bjp-workers-killed-in-bengal-amit-shah/story-m04nCLHfJdsAlWoHu2pHJO.html
1. Naxal motion: Nineteen Sixties to Seventies
https://indianexpress.com/article/analysis/51-years-of-naxalbari-how-a-peasant-uprising-triggered-a-pan-india-political-movement-5191046/
https://www.sahapedia.org/calcutta-Nineteen Fifties-and-Seventies-what-made-it-hotbed-rebellions
https://www.jstor.org/steady/27918111
https://www.epw.in/journal/2001/16/special-articles/political-economy-middleness.html
https://www.jstor.org/steady/26631541
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441102
https://www.jstor.org/steady/4410254
https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/3119
2. Left rule (1977-2006)
https://www.firstpost.com/india/understanding-politics-of-violence-in-west-bengal-shaped-by-fault-lines-in-social-structures-politicians-play-zero-sum-game-to-maintain-dominance-6805331.html
http://www.wbja.nic.in/wbja_adm/recordsdata/Thepercent20Westpercent20Bengalpercent20Panchayatpercent20Act,%201973.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/steady/27918111
https://www.jstor.org/steady/40278553
https://thewire.in/historical past/west-bengal-violence-marichjhapi-dandakaranya
3. Rise of Mamata Banerjee (2006-2014)
https://www.jstor.org/steady/27918111
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/CAZYvJRNWnxOsvFMoYcFHI/Nandigram-protests-14-killed-as-violence-spills-over-to-Kol.html
4. BJP’s affect (2014 onwards)
https://scroll.in/article/926918/why-political-violence-in-west-bengal-has-spiked-since-the-lok-sabha-polls-rather-than-subsiding
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/horror-stalks-bengal-villages-as-post-poll-violence-escalates/articleshow/69718081.cms
https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/3119
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