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The article offers information on the Collapse of secularism in West Bengal, India. Topics discussed include that the British consolidated control of Bengal in 1765, the region became India's political and cultural vanguard; the Bengali Renaissance of the nineteenth century inaugurated religious reform and literary and artistic bloom; discussing that the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hardly existed in the state, never winning more than two of West Bengal's dozens of parliamentary seats. It also mentions about Communist Party of India (CPM) found itself the standard-bearer of Bengali independence and social justice and CPM party workers killed eleven landless farmers who supported a rival regional party called the Trinamool Congress.