Has the Bhadralok intellectual culture in Bengal faded? | In Focus podcast Bonus Episode
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The Bhattra Lok's Era Is Over
The Bhattra Lok when they were settled in by the colonial dispensation, did not know how to grab on to political power. Once 1991 kicks in, you know, the liberal economy era or what we now know as the neoliberal era, it is all lost. And at the same time, I would also say that we have also moved from the elite concept of what democracy is to a more kind of rough and tumble of democracy.
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