This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minorities, and the subsequent reordering of national identities in India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). It examines how India and East Pakistan engaged with their post-Partition predicaments and how ordinary people on both sides reacted, adopted, and negotiated.
This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minorities, and the subsequent reordering of national identities in India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). It examines how India and East Pakistan engaged with their post-Partition predicaments and how ordinary people on both sides reacted, adopted, and negotiated.
Haimanti Roy is Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Partitioned Histories, Divided Identities Part I. Territories: 1: Drafting a New Nation 2: Limits of the Nation Part II. Citizens: 3: Home and Hearth 4: Citizens of the Nation Part III. Identities: 5: The Routine of Violence 6: Refugees and the Indian State Epilogue: Memories and Realities Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Partitioned Histories, Divided Identities Part I. Territories: 1: Drafting a New Nation 2: Limits of the Nation Part II. Citizens: 3: Home and Hearth 4: Citizens of the Nation Part III. Identities: 5: The Routine of Violence 6: Refugees and the Indian State Epilogue: Memories and Realities Bibliography Index
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