1st Edition
Partition as Border-Making East Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh
1. From Nostalgic ‘47 to the Presentness of Partition 2. Partition Literatures and East Bengal 3. Making of the Border, State and Nation 4. Under the Same Roof 5. Partition prolonged along the border 6. Partition: To be Continued?
Biography
Sayeed Ferdous has been teaching Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, since 1995 after he graduated from there. Later, he completed a second master’s from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, followed by a Ph.D. in History from Lancaster University, UK. Sayeed loves to work in the blurred zone of the disciplines of History and Anthropology. His areas of interest include historiography, memory/forgetting, subaltern, postcolonial nation, nation-state, and nationalism. Sayeed’s Ph.D. research is focused on the East Bengal/Pakistan episode of the 1947 Partition and its prolonged aftermath in Bangladesh. Write-ups from his research will appear as book chapters in two forthcoming anthologies, along with the published ones in local and international journals. Recently, Sayeed has jointly completed a research project on the Partition migrants to Dhaka, in partnership with Goethe Institute, Bangladesh, titled ‘Longing and Belonging: 1947 Partition Narratives.’
