আমরা: এক সচেতন প্রয়াস | 29 July, 2020 | 1930

West Bengal: Shariyati Violence against Sufi centers

Contemporary Bengal has seen several strategic attempts to convert its multicultural society to a monolithic one. The century’s old tendencies to attack Bengali folk singers the Baul-Fakirs in the name of societal chastity have now become even more perilous. Political religion has become a structural machinery which by using a variety of mechanisms of conflict and compromise targets the localized religious expressions, ‘destroys’ and constructs the monolith. Incidents in Rejinagar, Hulaspur and in some other places in Murshidabad district of West Bengal provide us chronicles of torture.

Communalism Polarisation Religious intolerance Conflict Islam Sufism Shariya

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