In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday said Michael Madhusudan Dutt is a luminous name in the history of Bengali ...

Voices from the south and west of India have risen in condemnation of the Delhi police’s description of Bengali, the language of more than 10 crore people living in India, as “Bangladeshi national ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

We usually understand language as a means of communication between people. But language is not limited to communication alone; it also affects or shapes power structures and sociocultural identity. In ...

BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, defended calling Bengali a “Bangladeshi language” in the context of identifying infiltrators. There is no officially recognized language called “Bangladeshi.” ...