1st Edition
Partition, Belonging, and the Birth of Bangladesh
Introduction: Toward Bangladesh, from East Pakistan
Subho Basu
1 Uncovering the political unconscious in a Socially Symbolic Act: Sayeed Ahmad’s The Milepost
Syed Jamil Ahmed
2 Masud Rana and the vernacularization of popular Cold War geopolitics in East Pakistan, 1966–71
Projit Bihari Mukharji
3 Neorealist wave in Bangladeshi cinema in the twentieth century and beyond: A metamorphic drive toward novelty
Dr Tahseen Alam Choudhury
4 Bangladesh in the Cold War
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
5 Dynamics of the people’s cultural and political struggles in an emerging Bangladesh
Farooque Chowdhury
6 A continued marginalization: The Chittagong Hill Tracts and the "colonial states"
Azizul Rasel
7 Dispossessed families and disposable daughters: Iphigenia in Calcutta
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
8 Considerations on Utopia, Partition, and Bengali women’s writing and activism
Barnita Bagchi
9 Of homes and Homelands: Muslim refugees from West Bengal to East Pakistan, 1947–71
Subho Basu
Biography
Subho Basu is a South Asian historian who specializes in social movements in twentieth-century South Asia. He has published two monographs Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh (2023) and Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Jute Workers’ Resistance 1809–1940 (2004). He has also authored Paradise Lost: State Failure in Nepal (2008) with Ali Riaz and co-edited two anthologies: (with Crispin Bates) Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005) and (with Suranjan Das) Electoral Politics in South Asia (2000). His work also includes articles on labor history and social movements.
Sandeep Banerjee is a scholar of anglophone and world literature and an associate professor of English at McGill University, Canada. His research focuses on questions related to aesthetics, politics, and the environment in the context of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. He is the author of Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony (2019). He has published in venues such as Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Modern Asian Studies. He is also one of the series editors of the Routledge Series in the Cultures of the Global Cold War and serves on the editorial boards of the journals positions: Asia critique and Mediations.
