In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

More members of the film and music fraternity in Bengal joined the chorus against Delhi Police over a purported letter that referred to Bengali as “Bangladeshi national language”, questioning whether ...

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...

Kolkata: Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the granting of classical language status to Bengali, in a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. Similar status was given to Assamese, Marathi, Pali and ...

BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, defended calling Bengali a “Bangladeshi language” in the context of identifying infiltrators. There is no officially recognized language called “Bangladeshi.” ...