• Bodhan Sarkar

The 3rd and 4th decade of 20th century marked some remarkable significance in cast and class politics in Indian History. Cast politics emerged as prominent when the Assembly election in 1937 was held as per the Government of India Act which was based on Communal Award or Puna Pact the SC leaders were trying to establish their potentiality in constitutional politics and provincial autonomy. In addition to these efforts were being made to establish a separate identity for the Dalit people. There had been search for the separate existence for the Dalit people by creating a new and distinct self-identity for themselves to compete with the caste Hindu Bhadralok who were claimed to have been the hierarchy in the society and oppressor to the low caste Dalit people. In this regard some leaders came forward to hold the leadership of this kind separate existent movement. So, this kind of movement played a tremendous role when the country was going to divide based on two Nation theory in 1947.In this regard first name came to be highlighted in the field is depressed class leader J.N. Mandal who had been forgotten in the History after his death in 1968. Mandal a follower or supporter of Ambedkar supported the demand for separate Pakistan as Ambedkar also did. In return Jinnah also prized him selecting the representative of Muslim league in the interim Government. J.N. Mandal decided to remain in Pakistan after Partition of the country and joined the Liaquat Ali Khan Ministry as Laboure and Law minister. J.N Mandal believed Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Muslim league Government to treat the Scheduled Caste Hindu people with equality and fraternity comparing with Muslims. My paper is to explore how his faith was broken immediately and returned to India and tried to establish his second political career in West Bengal keeping himself involved in refugee rehabilitation movement and constitutional provincial politics in West Bengal. However, this time he wanted to rejuvenate his political struggle as he had to face a lot of criticism when he supported the demanded for Pakistan and opposed to the partition of Bengal and supported for United Bengal with Sharat Bose, Kiran Sankar Ray and Suhrawardy. After partition he lost his political credibility even among his own community Namasudra people and other high caste political leaders of Congress and Mahasabha. Naturally his main endeavor in West Bengal after his return from Pakistan was to search for new political identity as a politician, leader of depressed class and national icon of depressed class struggle for equal right and doing away with his alienation from his own community.

Revisiting Jogendra Nath Mandal: Post Partition Socio-Political Activism and Historical Evaluation.

"Revisiting Jogendra Nath Mandal: Post Partition Socio-Political Activism and Historical Evaluation.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 10, page no.85-93, October-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1710170.pdf

"Revisiting Jogendra Nath Mandal: Post Partition Socio-Political Activism and Historical Evaluation.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 10, page no. pp85-93, October-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1710170.pdf