Dispossession, Degradation and Empowerment of Peasantry and the Poor in Bengali Fiction

Dispossession, Degradation and Empowerment of Peasantry and the Poor in Bengali Fiction Tony Beck Tirthankar Bose White within the mainstream paradigm of peasant studies the peasantry and the poor are represented as apathethic and passive recipients of elite ideology. Bengali fiction reveals a more complex pattern of dispossession, degradation and empowerment of the peasantry and the poor.