1st Edition

Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal

By Tista Das Copyright 2023
194 Pages
by Routledge India

194 Pages
by Routledge India

194 Pages
by Routledge India

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. Drawing heavily on police records, private papers, newspapers and memoirs, this work enters the realm of personal time in the... Read more

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.     . 

Biography

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.