Mapmaking, Partition Stories from 2 Bengals

Mapmaking, Partition Stories from 2 Bengals
Author: Debjani Sengupta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Bengali fiction
ISBN:

Stories From Bangladesh And West Bengal In A Unique Attempt To See How Partition Has Shaped The Narratives Of The Two Regions That Share A Common Culture And Language.

Bengal Partition Stories

Bengal Partition Stories
Author: Bashabi Fraser
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 184331357X

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.

Partition as Border-Making

Partition as Border-Making
Author: Sayeed Ferdous
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000458954

This book critically analyzes the Partition experiences from East Bengal in 1947 and its prolonged aftermath leading to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. It looks at how newly emerged borderlands at the time of Partition affected lives and triggered prolonged consequences for the people living in East Bengal/Bangladesh. The author brings to the fore unheard voices and unexplored narratives, especially those relating the experience of different groups of Muslims in the midst of the falling apart of the unified Muslim identity. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research and archival resources, the volume analyzes various themes such as partition literature, local narratives of border-making, smuggling, border violence, refugees, identity conflicts, border crossing, and experiences of the Bihari Muslims and the Hindus of East Pakistan, among others. A unique study in border-making, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, South Asian history, Partition studies, oral history, anthropology, political history, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, and borderland studies.

The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947

The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947
Author: Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134332742

The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. Both the British Indian provinces were divided as much through the actions of the Muslim League as by those of Congress and the British colonial power. Attributing partition largely to Hindu communalists is, therefore, historically inaccurate and factually misleading. The Partition of Bengal and Assam provides a review of constitutional and party politics as well as of popular attitudes and perceptions. The primary aim of this book is to unravel the intricate socio-economic and political processes that led up to partition, as Hindus and Muslims competed ferociously for the new power and privileges to be conferred on them with independence. As shown in the book, well before they divorced at a political level, Hindus and Muslims had been cleaved apart by their socio-economic differences. Partition was probably inevitable.

Partition and the Practice of Memory

Partition and the Practice of Memory
Author: Churnjeet Mahn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319645161

This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).

Partitioned Lives

Partitioned Lives
Author: Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788131714164

Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.

Witnessing Partition

Witnessing Partition
Author: Tarun K. Saint
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429560001

This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.

The Partition of Bengal

The Partition of Bengal
Author: Debjani Sengupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316673871

This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.

Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia

Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia
Author: Nukhbah Taj Langah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000422577

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.

Partition Literature and Cinema

Partition Literature and Cinema
Author: Jaydip Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000067548

This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts – written and visual – including Train to Pakistan, "Toba Tek Singh", Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.