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As I found these sources, I realized I might want to tweak my question a bit. Instead of talking about how language was used in The Hungry Tide I might want to involve how education played a role in shaping the characters as well as the reason for how many events played out as they did.
I think the tweak, to focus on the role played by education in the text, is sensible, especially given the emphasis on the very different modes of education that shaped Nirmal, Piya, Kanai, and Fokir. But the sources you cite are mostly about pedagogy itself, in the “real world.” As such they are not very “Englishy.” So find ways to create new searches that will locate the theme of education in THT. You might have to search character names (Nirmal, Fokir), or synonyms for “education,” like “development” or “experience.”