The president of the Joint Action Committee for Bengali Refugees, Sukriti Ranjan Biswas, speaks to The Wire about CAA, NRC and the BJP's support base amongst Bengali Dalits at a time when the assembly polls are fast approaching.

The site and its associated meanings have thus only further cemented their reputation as a source of resistance to a Brahminical order.

For the first time since the 1940s (with important exceptions), we are witnessing in Bengal today the growing acceptability and assent to a concocted revival of fears of the “Musolman”.

Though promised much by the 'Hindu' west after Partition, Dalits who crossed over from East Bengal got the opposite of a warm welcome.