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100			_aBhattacharyya, Shatarupa _934511
245			_aOnce there was a syncretic deity
260			_aSeminar
300			_a750, Feb, 2022: p.34-37
520			_aTHE Sundarbans is united by its geography – that of a riverine delta dotted with low-lying islands of mangrove forests teeming with a bewildering variety of flora and fauna including the Royal Bengal Tiger – but divided by a border. The border, drawn along purportedly religious lines in 1947 by the departing British in keeping with their religious conception of the subcontinent, has separated the shared culture of the region as well. This culture has emerged not so much from Bengal – of which the Sundarbans has always been part – as from the distinct geography that sets the Sundarbans apart from the rest of Bengal. In fact, it is an amalgamation of different cultural practices both from Bengal and beyond. That is why the cultural practices prevalent in the region have been described as syncretic.- Reproduced
773			_aSeminar
906			_aINDIA - HISTORY
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