Although Comrade Konar was not a Cabinet Minister but Gandhi used to take suggestions from him on any agricultural issues because Delhi knew that Comrade Konar had great knowledge on peasantry, land, and agricultural issues. There were as many as eighty incidents of dacoity, two murders and also one abduction. Colonial Period and Partition. As an Anglophone Tamil, I found myself torn: while Kesavan and others were suddenly hailing these translations of Tamil fiction into English as cultural nationalism, I was drawn to them because they were imaginative fragments broken off from my own provincial cultural universe, before it was shared, and before I even knew what it meant. Divisions of West Bengal.
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