Medha Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Medha Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Medha |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Positive Approach to the Problem of Indian Unity”
This article examines the impact of linguistic reorganization on politics in Bihar (1954–57). It traces the interlinking politics of Bengalis in Bihar and Hindus and Muslims respectively, who claimed Hindi and Urdu as their mother tongues and discusses the processes that went into forming a broad antilinguistic reorganization coalition that included these three groups. First, it discusses the strategies used by different factions to oppose lingui…
Linguistic minorities and strategic mobilisation in eastern India
This article analyses how linguistic minorities in the province of Bihar navigated the era of linguistic territorialism, when mainstream political organisations and figures within India largely agreed that specific linguistic communities ‘belonged’ in particular regions. Indian scholarship has tended to focus on the mechanisms that brought about the linguistic reorganisation of states in India, therefore, concentrating largely on the ways in whic…
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Linguistic minorities and strategic mobilisation in eastern India
This article analyses how linguistic minorities in the province of Bihar navigated the era of linguistic territorialism, when mainstream political organisations and figures within India largely agreed that specific linguistic communities ‘belonged’ in particular regions. Indian scholarship has tended to focus on the mechanisms that brought about the linguistic reorganisation of states in India, therefore, concentrating largely on the ways in whic…
A Positive Approach to the Problem of Indian Unity”
This article examines the impact of linguistic reorganization on politics in Bihar (1954–57). It traces the interlinking politics of Bengalis in Bihar and Hindus and Muslims respectively, who claimed Hindi and Urdu as their mother tongues and discusses the processes that went into forming a broad antilinguistic reorganization coalition that included these three groups. First, it discusses the strategies used by different factions to oppose lingui…
Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (1 work) · Bengali (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Independence (probability theory (1 work)