Rethinking the History of a Scheduled Caste by Soumen Biswas (Hardcover)

This is carefully thought and designed thesis… immensely rich in material on caste. –Badri Narayan , Allahabad Soumen Biswas’s book should be a welcome addition to the wider realm of Bengal Studies. Biswas delves into a community, who had for long been despised as ‘untouchables’, ‘ backward’ and ‘unsophisticated’, the very binary terms opposed to the representation of Bengali ‘bhadraloks’ and their culture. Biswas’s work is an amalgam of both ‘lived experience’, his own journey as a Namasudra youth with the wider emerging knowledge paradigm distinguished in contemporary times as Dalit Studies. –Raj Sekhar Basu, Calcutta