Article From Caste to Political Identity: Reflections on the transition of socio-cultural Reforms of the Scheduled Castes to Political Identity in Late colonial Bengal , in Padam Nepal and Anup Sekhar Chakraborty(eds): Politics of Culture , Identity and Protest in Northeast India (New Delhi, Authors Press, 2012), pp 275-209. ISBN 979-81-7273-626-2 By Rup Kumar Barman Associate professor in History Jadavpur University Kolkata