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The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations book cover

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The Long History of Partition in Bengal Event, Memory, Representations

Edited By Rituparna Roy, Jayanta Sengupta, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Copyright 2024
300 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

300 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

300 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide and inclusive range of perspectives and studies the specificities of the history of violence and migration and their memories in the Bengal region. The chapters in the volume range from the administrative consequences of partition to public policies on... Read more

 Introduction: Partition and its Afterlife in Bengal

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Part I: Partition and refugees

1.      Of Conflict and Cooperation: The Material Implications of British India’s Partition

Anwesha Sengupta

2.      Divided Landsapes, Fragmented Identities: East Bengal Refugees and their Rehabilitation in India, 1947-79

Gyanesh Kudaisya

3.      Refugeehood in the Eyes of the Refugees: Voices of the Victims of Displacement

Anindita Ghoshal

 Part II: Memory, rememory and postmemory

 4.      Frozen time, partitioned mind: Tales of seeking refuge in West Bengal after partition

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

5.       Life Stories and Material Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition

Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

6.      Spaces of Anamnesis: The Partition of India and An/Other Bengal

Krishna Sen

7.      The “Lost” Land of Barisal: “Crafting” a “Nostalgia” of East Bengal and the “Pain” of Partition

Jayanta Sengupta

8.      Partition’s Women: Inherited Memories of Remarkable Lives and Times

Debdatta Chowdhury

9.      ‘Creation of a Women’s Sphere: Adjusting to an “Alien” Terrain in Post-Partition Bengal

Aparajita Sengupta

10.  ‘Moving memories: Remembering, and forgetting, the Partition of Bengal between South Asia and the United Kingdom

Jasmine Hornabrook, Clelia Clini and Emily Keightley

Part III: Cultural representation and memorialization

11.  Katha and Myths at the Interface of the Village and the Nation

Sarbani Banerjee

12.  Memory as cinematic praxis: The art of Ritwik Ghatak

Sreemati Mukherjee

13. The (im)possibility of representing genocidal violence: Jewish Museum Berlin, Amritsar Partition Museum and a case for a Partition Museum in Kolkata

Rituparna Roy

14.  Kolkata Partition Museum: Material Memory through Subaltern Narratives of Involuntary Migration

Aurgho Jyoti

Index

 

Biography

Rituparna Roy is Initiator, Kolkata Partition Museum Project and Managing Trustee, KPM Trust.

 

Jayanta Sengupta is Director, Alipore Museum, Kolkata, and former Director of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India.

 

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington, where he was previously the director of New Zealand India Research Institute.

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