There is difficulty in lumping together all the Muslims resident in Bengal as an ethnic category. Many of those in the small Muslim elite were Urdu-speaking Muslims who did not think of themselves ...

Millions are expected to attend the annual Ijtema in Bangladesh -- considered the world's second biggest Muslim gathering ...

Both its title, Mushkil Asan Bratakatha ba Asan Bibir Panchali, and the striking cover image of a pot-bellied fakir that had ...

Twice in the last few weeks, the police have screened documents of Bengali Muslims living in the Bangali Basti slum of Vasant Kunj in Delhi. | Abhik Deb “Anyone who speaks Bangla is suspected to ...

Uddin specializes in constructions of the Bengali-Muslim religious community from the colonial to the contemporary period. Her work examines the many Bengali expressions of Islam and covers shared ...

The colonial prejudice against Bengali Muslims began with the Battle of Plassey and the treason-aided defeat of Sirajuddaula in June 1757. That bias became more entrenched a hundred years later ...

Earlier on Monday, a group of madrasa students had attacked a stall at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka over the display ...

The National Revolutionary Council (NRC) has called on the interim government to take strict action against what it describes ...

Sufia Uddin's research interest has focused on constructions of the Bengali-Muslim religious community from the colonial to the contemporary period. Her work examines the many Bengali expressions of ...

My Kolkata met Bashar at the boi mela for a conversation, discussing India’s evolution, the status of the Bengali Muslims, his career as an author, and more. Edited excerpts follow. My Kolkata: India ...

Akhteruzzaman Elias would often deconstruct novels as a literary form, emphasising the role of social realism in mastering ...