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Dr Anirban Ganguly is the chairman of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a member of BJP’s National Executive Committee. Besides being a political activist, he has extensively worked in the areas of public policy and political research. He has a PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on the national education movement in India and Sri Aurobindo’s education philosophy. Dr Ganguly is also a scholar of civilisation, history, politics, and culture and has written and continues to write on these subjects. He was a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE); Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU); Governing Board of Auroville Foundation; and Visva-Bharati Samsad (Court), Santiniketan. He writes newspaper columns and has authored, co-authored, and edited several books including Subhas Chandra O Syama Prasad: Tulanamulok Chintan Aloke (2024), Modi: Energising a Green Future (2023), The Master: Sri Aurobindo and the Quest for National Education (2023), K.R. Malkani and the Motherland (2022), Modi 2.0: A Resolve to Secure India (2021), Dattopant Thengadi: The Activist Parliamentarian (2020), Amit Shah and the March of BJP (2019), Making of New India: Transformation under Modi Government (2018), Syama Prasad Mookerjee: His Vision of Education (2017), The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s Foreign Policy (2016), Redefining Governance: Essays on One year of Narendra Modi Government (2015), Swami Vivekananda, Buddha and Buddhism (2014), Debating Culture (2013), and Education: Philosophy and Practice (2011).

Anirban Ganguly

Dr Anirban Ganguly is the chairman of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a member of BJP’s National Executive Committee. Besides being a political activist, he has extensively worked in the areas of public policy and political research. He has a PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on the national education movement in India and Sri Aurobindo’s education philosophy. Dr Ganguly is also a scholar of civilisation, history, politics, and culture and has written and continues to write on these subjects. He was a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE); Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU); Governing Board of Auroville Foundation; and Visva-Bharati Samsad (Court), Santiniketan. He writes newspaper columns and has authored, co-authored, and edited several books including Subhas Chandra O Syama Prasad: Tulanamulok Chintan Aloke (2024), Modi: Energising a Green Future (2023), The Master: Sri Aurobindo and the Quest for National Education (2023), K.R. Malkani and the Motherland (2022), Modi 2.0: A Resolve to Secure India (2021), Dattopant Thengadi: The Activist Parliamentarian (2020), Amit Shah and the March of BJP (2019), Making of New India: Transformation under Modi Government (2018), Syama Prasad Mookerjee: His Vision of Education (2017), The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s Foreign Policy (2016), Redefining Governance: Essays on One year of Narendra Modi Government (2015), Swami Vivekananda, Buddha and Buddhism (2014), Debating Culture (2013), and Education: Philosophy and Practice (2011).

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From Partition to Progress
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From Partition to Progress

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After the partition of Bengal in 1947, the influx of refugees from across the border created one of the world’s largest migration crises. In the early years after independence, Prime Minister Nehru imposed the Nehru–Liaquat Pact, an agreement with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, which did not serve India’s interests but instead helped Pakistan.

 

In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The objective of the law is to confer citizenship to persecuted minorities, including Bengali Hindus. However, the Congress and communist parties opposed it.

 

From Nehru to Modi sheds light on the struggles faced by Bengali Hindus in post-independent Pakistan. It exposes how the Congress under Nehru’s leadership failed these persecuted refugees. The book also highlights the role of Syama Prasad Mookerjee in advocating for a homeland for Bengali Hindus in West Bengal. The tenacious efforts of organizations such as the RSS, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and later the BJP in demanding dignity, rehabilitation, and citizenship for these refugees are also explored in some detail.

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