{"product_id":"9781647536756","title":"Mukti: Free To Be Born Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mukti: Free to Be Born Again\" is a history-based fictionalized non-fiction created on four decades of fieldwork in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and Hindu-majority India. Many strands of real-life drama have been weaved together with 1947 Hindu-Muslim, Secular-Islamic, and 1971 Islamic-Secular, ruling minority vs. oppressed-majority partitions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Because of precarious plight individuals and villages, names have been fictionalized. The story focuses on transformation of a society by the oppressor, oppressed, Islam, Hinduism and Leftism of elites who chose not to live in Muslim-majority homeland. The story ties Indian and Bengali history, views of Muslims and Hindus, role of Bangladeshi Hindu refugee elites in India, pogroms, devastation of minority communities, role of anti-Hindu Islamism and anti-tradition Communism, life of poor oppressed-caste Hindus left behind in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, and more. Dastidar is the first to break a taboo by writing in 1989 about the poor, oppressed Hindu Minority left behind by the Hindu-refugee elites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMukti is a commonly-used term in Hindu-Buddhist philosophies meaning freedom from rebirth, and liberation from oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Urlink Print \u0026 Media, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48148484423921,"sku":"9781647536756","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781647536756_p0.jpg?v=1778256829","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781647536756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}