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My parents, a Ghoti man, tracing his roots to Purba
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The social competition among Ghoti and Bengal communities in Bengal and outside it, over the past 50 years is a known fact among bengalis. But since the late 1980-s, when the pressure on land and labour markets started to ease with the start of the liberalization of the Indian economy, this
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