মীনাক্ষী সেনের ছোটোগল্পে ত্রিপুরার বাঙালি সংকট/ Minakshi sener chotogolpe tripurar bangali sankat

Abstract

Minakshi Sen, a literature of Bengali Language had gone to Tripura, a state of India. There she noticed the life and the crisis of the local people, the son of the soil. They were mostly deprived by the Bengalee people, who are not the native of Tripura. From the present Bangladesh and West Bengal people had gone to Tripura, Assam for their jobs. These people stayed their year after year and once upon a time they decided to settle there permanently. These Bengalee community of Tripura, Assam or in other North-East states of India who had gone there from Bangladesh and West Bengal specially by depriving the native people occupy their land. Actually they occupy the tribal land of these states. Tribal people believed the Bengalee much for their culture and education. Even they had given shelter the Bangali migrant various times. But they were uprooted by the Bengalee from their own land.

                   The ground reality of Tripuri people or Assamese depicts in Bengali literature of Assam and Tripura. These scenario is different from Bengali literature of West Bengal and Bangladesh or which is called mainstream Bengali Literature. Like other Bengali writer Minakshi Sen deals with this topic in her writings, as she settled in Tripura from West Bengal. Minakshi’s short story deals with the crisis of the native people, Tripuri who lost their land, lost their aboriginality. But another opposite version of this crisis is main target of this essay; Crisis of the Bengalee people of Tripura. Learned Bengalee of Tripura feels that their ancestors did unethical doings with the tribal of that region. Even the cultural hegemony of Bengalee deprived the tribal. Son of the soil of Tripura compelled to think that they are the ‘other’ in their homeland. So present day Bengalee people feel identity crisis. Minakshi’s story deals with the crisis of Tripuri or the socio-economic problems of the tribal community. So in this essay we will discuss about the crisis of Bengalee people from humanitarian ground.