Browsing by Subject "Regionalism"

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Indian Federalism under Stress
(University of North Bengal, 2015) Sahu, Mrutuyanjaya
In a period of widespread corruption, coupled with economic downturn, disconcerting issues related to autonomy and separate states, the management of grassroots level affairs by local communities in the wake of political consciousness and local aspirations and the issues of Centre-state relations are back on the political agenda. A legitimate question that arises in this context is: do we need to rethink federalism in India? This paper attempts to highlight the present challenges to the centre-state relations and explores the directions in which the national and state governments should move if the country is to achieve its goals of a strong, stable, economically vibrant nation.
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Linguistic Regionalism and Constitution: An Indian Experience
(University of North Bengal, 2020-03) Mondal, Rakesh
The social movement is one of the major factors of social transformation almost in every society. The claim of Linguistic regionalism is so immense that it compels the various nations to re-design their constitutional framework. Basically, people of particular linguistic community have the emotional attachment towards their language. As a result of that these community demands for the recognition of their language as an official language of the nation or at least elementary education may be imparted in their own language. Sometimes, these communities claim for recognition of their distinct language asa language of communication in governmental or executive or judicial functions. Some of these claims may be legitimately endorsed under the constitutional frameworks. Although this problemis minimal for the homogenous societies, the problem of the multilingual state is massive. Specially, difficulties arise for those nations wherein no particular linguistic community hold the majority status.
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Regional movements and federal governance in India : study of their impact on the Indian political process since 1977
(University of North Bengal, 2020) Banerjee, Swati; Chakraborty, Ranjita,
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Regionalism in West Bengal : a study of movement of Gorkhaland
(University of North Bengal, 2009) Guha, Anindya; Chakravarty, Manas
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A Survey on the Unique & Composite Temples of Cooch Behar from (17th to 19th century)
(University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Lama, Sudash; Acharjee, Arka
Temple in India is considered as an abode of God Almighty, a centre of reverence. The Hindu temple, in more than one sense, epitomises the numerous sides and complex processes of the cultural development of Hinduism through its architecture. The major temple styles listed and described in the “Vāstuśāstra” texts are the Nāgara, Drāvida and Vesara. All the available texts are agreed on the point that the Nāgara style was prevalent in the region between Himalayas and Vindhyas. So, geographically Bengal belongs to the school of Nāgara style and Bengal temple architecture in its initial phase chiefly followed the Nāgara style though the process of the consequent development of Nāgara style can be traced through various regional schools, of which the major ones were Orissa (Kalinga style) & Central India (Mahoba style). But from the 17th Century, the history of Indian temple architecture witnessed the beginning of a distinct Bengal school which consisted of a series of parallel unique temple styles by which Bengal hold an important status in the architectural atlas in India. From the 17th to 19th Centuries Bengal may be categorised as a province that behold several innovative architectural styles. In this connection a noticeable point may also to be noted here that though Cooch Behar is a part of Bengal, stylistically this part also shows its architectural uniqueness by consuming and admixing various local and also general attributes. By undertaking field survey at Cooch Behar district the author tried to trace these distinguishable features of these temples.