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This chapter titled, ‘Apolitical Community and Elections: Comparative Study of Naths in West Bengal and Assam’ by Kunal Debnath argues that due to the absence of a centralised organisation, the absence of the desire to be promoted as a vote bank, political apathy of these organisations due to the belief that caste foundation will be eroded by getting in touch with politics and the absence of any political association or political vision, the main aim of the Nath community remained to have a social status and not political one. Due to the internal division among Naths on the question of securing OBC status both in Assam and in West Bengal, the Nath remains apolitical.
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This chapter titled, ‘Apolitical Community and Elections: Comparative Study of Naths in West Bengal and Assam’ by Kunal Debnath argues that due to the absence of a centralised organisation, the absence of the desire to be promoted as a vote bank, political apathy of these organisations due to the belief that caste foundation will be eroded by getting in touch with politics and the absence of any political association or political vision, the main aim of the Nath community remained to have a social status and not political one. Due to the internal division among Naths on the question of securing OBC status both in Assam and in West Bengal, the Nath remains apolitical.
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This chapter titled, ‘Apolitical Community and Elections: Comparative Study of Naths in West Bengal and Assam’ by Kunal Debnath argues that due to the absence of a centralised organisation, the absence of the desire to be promoted as a vote bank, political apathy of these organisations due to the belief that caste foundation will be eroded by getting in touch with politics and the absence of any political association or political vision, the main aim of the Nath community remained to have a social status and not political one. Due to the internal division among Naths on the question of securing OBC status both in Assam and in West Bengal, the Nath remains apolitical.
Kunal Debnath
Rabindra Bharati University
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This page is a summary of: Apolitical Community and Elections, June 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003499404-12.
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