In search of Bharatiya ‘porichoy’: Will the Matua–Namasudras rewrite ‘poriborton’ in Bengal elections?

Why the Matua-Namasudra community views politics the way it does becomes clearer when one looks beyond electoral arithmetic, beyond BJP versus Trinamool Congress (TMC), and even before the creation of Bangladesh. The Matua movement, by the early twentieth century, had become as much a social force as a religious one.