দেশভাগ ও ভূমিসংস্কার পরবর্তী উত্তরবঙ্গের আর্থ-সামাজিক ও সাংস্কৃতিক পরিবর্তন : প্রসঙ্গ বিপুল দাসের ‘সরমার সন্ততি’ উপন্যাস / Socio-economic and cultural changes in North Bengal after partition and land reforms: in the Context of Bipul Das’s novel 'Saramar S

Abstract

After the land reforms, the condition of the indigenous landowners of North Bengal became deplorable. The government distributed land to the poor royal family as well as to the landless people from East Bengal. As a result, many landless people found a little shelter to lay their heads on. Many sharecroppers or adhiyars thus regained their rights to their land. A mixed language culture developed through the coexistence of the two races. However, most of the people who benefited from land acquisition through the land reform program in North Bengal were displaced landless farmers from East Bengal. They are now gradually moving up the socio-economic ladder through land acquisition, agricultural skills, and education. On the other hand, the royal landowners and their successors lost their land, sold it, and moved from the cities of North Bengal to the villages. Fiction writer Bipul Das has focused on this change in North Bengal in his novel ‘Saramar Santati’.