Tista Das

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Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were brought about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000654912
• Artikelnr.: 64614419

Autorenporträt

Tista Das teaches history at Bankura University, India. She obtained her PhD from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. She was a junior research fellow at the Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research focuses on the afterlife of the Partition in India and narratives of life in refugee camps and colonies in post-partition Bengal. She has focused on the experiences of women in this narrative. She has worked on ways and means of reading violence and those of reliving the experiences of the Partition in South Asia through remembrance and forgetting.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Hindu from Noakhali and the Muslim from Bihar 1. Violence and
Migration 2. Crossing the Border Part II: Through Barbed Wires 3. Camp
Refugees and the State 4. The Inmates Part III: Creating Homes 5. Life in
the Colonies 6. The Women of the 1950s. End Words. .

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Part I: The Hindu from Noakhali and the Muslim from Bihar 1. Violence and Migration 2. Crossing the Border Part II: Through Barbed Wires 3. Camp Refugees and the State 4. The Inmates Part III: Creating Homes 5. Life in the Colonies 6. The Women of the 1950s. End Words. .