Mamata's plebeian politics sounds death knell for Bengal's Bhadralok genteelity

There is a deep sense of unease about the present and future in the sprawling urban malignity that Kolkata turned into midway through the Left Front regime. The anxiety, stemming from the brutal gang rape in Birbhum, reflects the foreboding that the Bengali "bhadralok", primarily upper caste, respectable and privileged Hindus with some access to landed property or wealth and with a claim to a liberal education, are fast being supplanted...

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