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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (2)

In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora (2014)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2014). In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora. In M. N. Chakraborty (Ed.), Being Bengali : at home and in the world (140-158). Routledge

This article examines the commonalities and differences constructed among different Bengali diasporic communities in London that purport to determine the authenticity of an ethnic Bengali identity. I argue that the ‘dominant’, homogenous discourse of... Read More about In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora.