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    Civil Disobedience and Its Justification in Respect to Moral Aspects
    (University of North Bengal, 2025) Biswas, Monalisha
    Civil disobedience has been a central issue in recent times in the field of political philosophy. The most important moral question related to the problem of civil disobedience concerns the limits of a citizen's obedience owed to the state. The problem of political obligation raises questions such as: 1. To what extent does the citizen have an obligation to obey the laws of the state? 2. Is the citizen of a state, whether democratic or otherwise, under an obligation to obey the unjust laws of the state? There are two different positions or viewpoints concerning the character of the obligation to obey the laws of the State. 1. The first position states .........."one has an absolute obligation to obey the law and therefore disobedience to the state law is never justified". 2. The second position asserts -------- "one has a Prima facie obligation to obey the law, but this obligation can be overridden by conflicting obligations. Hence, disobedience to the state law can be justified in the presence of outweighing circumstances".
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    Popular Protests and Nationalist Movement in Mufassil Bengal: Maldah 1925 - 1934
    (University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Sarkar, Ashim Kumar
    Focusing' on Maldah, a northern district of Bengal, an attempt has been made in this work to demonstrate that the complexity of the nationalist movement can be gauged through an indepth study of the localities. The study attempts to throw significant light on the different facets of nationalism. The study draws attention to the view that nationalism was not only marked by a series of urban and popular rural protests but was also a struggle where people, in a variety of positions, taking a wide range of steps, posed a severe challenge to the British 'authority and hegemony. Tile popular struggles, which converged with the Civil Disobedience movement, moved .beyond the parameter _of congress programme and threw up their own agendas. Focusing on Maldah, this study throws light on the popular perceptions and translations of nationalism: which were linked up with the desires and aspirations of the adivasi peasants.