Namasudra
Namasudra (also Namassej or Namassut) is the name of an Indian community originally from certain regions of Bengal, India. They were traditionally engaged in cultivation and as boatmen.[1] They lived outside the four-tier ritual varna system and thus were outcastes.[2]
History
The Namasudra community of Bengal tried to take advantage of the interest in the bhadralok movement of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries in order to improve the way in which society perceived them.[3]
Community association
The Namassej Samaj Andolon is a socio-political organisation that claims to represent the community.[4]
References
- ↑ Bose, N.K. (1994). The Structure Of Hindu Society (Revised ed.). Orient Longman Limited. pp. 161–162. ISBN 81-250-0855-1.
- ↑ Rees, D. Ben, ed. (2002). Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970. William Carey Library. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-87808-505-7.
- ↑ Chatterji, Joya (2002). Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947. Cambridge University Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780521523288.
- ↑ "Home page". Namassej (Namasudra) Samaj.
Further reading
- Ray, Niharranjan (1994). History of the Bengali People: Ancient Period. Orient Longman. ISBN 978-0-86311-378-9.
- Bandyopadhyaẏa, Sekhara (1997). Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: the Namasudras of Bengal, 1872-1947. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-0626-6.
- Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (2004). Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal. SAGE. ISBN 9780761998495.
- "Research Response: India". Refugee Review Tribunal, Australia. 30 August 2007.
- The stranglehold after 1947: By Vohra: , By M. Klass, pp. 43: : by Ross Mullick,JAS vol. 58. no. 1 (Feb 1999) pp. 104–125.: Marichjhapi:ABR : & :
- Ghatak, N. K.; Mukherjee, D. P. (1986). "Baruni : A Folk Festival of Thakurnagar Organised by the Namasudra Community for Onward Movement". Folklore (Calcutta: Indian Folklore Society) 27 (317): 241–247. ISSN 0015-5896.(subscription required)
- Das, S. N. Das, ed. (2003). The Bengalis. The People, Their History And Culture. Cosmo Publication. ISBN 978-81-7755-392-5.
- Sarkar, Sumit (2002). Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253342034.
- Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (1998). "Changing Borders, Shifting Loyalties: Religion, Caste and the Partition of Bengal in 1947". Asian Studies Institute Working Paper 2 (Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington). ISSN 1174-5991.
