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100 _aBanerjee, Sumanta
245 _aBengali left: from pink to saffron?
260 _c2003
300 _ap.864-65.
362 _a1 Mar
520 _aWith this government's failure to stem retrenchment in the industrial field, sustain its few achievements in the countryside, and provide basic amenities and a clean administration for all its citizens, the picture is indeed bleak in West Bengal. In order to explain away this failure, the CPI (M) has today found a scapegoat - the Bangladeshi infiltrators. But such a choice has ominous implications - given the tense communal situation in the country today, as well as the historical background of Hindu-Muslim relations in West Bengal. - Reproduced.
650 _aWest Bengal - Politics and government
650 _aPolitics and government
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999 _c55707
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