A Reading Of Violence In Partition Stories From Bengal

Author : Suranjana Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527557109

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A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal by Suranjana Choudhury Pdf

This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation—the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting—invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique of historical and political engagements with violence. The experiences of suffering, pain, trauma, affliction, torture, fear and betrayal are also constituted within the structural analysis of violence.

Author : Bashabi Fraser
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843313571

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Bengal Partition Stories by Bashabi Fraser Pdf

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.

Author : Paulomi Chakraborty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199095391

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The Refugee Woman by Paulomi Chakraborty Pdf

The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.

Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300233643

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The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan Pdf

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC

Author : Debjani Sengupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316673874

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The Partition of Bengal by Debjani Sengupta Pdf

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.

Author : Suranjana Choudhury,Nabanita Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508895

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Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement by Suranjana Choudhury,Nabanita Sengupta Pdf

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation. It maps the diverse engagements with women’s experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives, life writing and memoirs, cultural discourses, and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body, women and the national identity, violence against women in Indian Partition narratives, and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory, identity, and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind women’s displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender, migration, and marginalization. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, gender studies, conflict studies, development studies, South Asian studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies, and sociology.

Author : Publications Division
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Yojana August 2022 (English) (Special Issue) by Publications Division Pdf

YOJANA is a monthly journal devoted to the socio-economic issues. It started its publication in 1957 with Mr. Khuswant Singh as the Chief Editor. The magazine is now published in 13 languages viz. English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia.

Author : Jasodhara Bagchi,Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : 818560455X

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The Trauma and the Triumph by Jasodhara Bagchi,Subhoranjan Dasgupta Pdf

Drawing Upon Interviews With Women Who Were Uprooted From Old East Bengal, On Diaries, Memoirs, And Creative Literature, The Editors Lift The `Veil Of Silence` That Has Surrounded The Bengal Partition Of 1947.

Author : Patricia A. Gossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367286092

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Riots and Victims by Patricia A. Gossman Pdf

In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of several protracted violent conflicts and the eruption of ethnic and communal violence in countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. Riots and Victims challenges the popular academic interpretation of such events as examples of tribal slaughter or spontaneous eruptions, fueled by historic conflict between religious and ethnic communities. This book examines the origins and consequences of the violence that occurred between the Muslim and Hindu communities in pre-partition Bengal, which ultimately resulted in the creation of Pakistan. Gossman argues that communal violence and communal identity were not merely the consequences of long-term animosities, but rather ploys orchestrated by mid-level politicians for their own advancement and aggrandizement. Riots and Victims introduces new analyses of local violence and identity, and explores issues of far-reaching importance.

Author : Jiban Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1645871665

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Rising From the Ashes of Bengal's Partition: Untold Story of a 'Phoenix' Aspiring to Live a New Life by Jiban Mukhopadhyay Pdf

Usually books on partition are sob stories, but not this one. 'Rising from the Ashes of Bengal's Partition' is an untold story of the journey of a child born around the time of partition, who battled many hurdles and aspired to lead a new life - like a Phoenix. This is a story of his - and his generation's - unflinching determination to move ahead. This is the story of the real people who did not curse their fate and sit idle shedding tears. It covers a child's - and his generations - torturous journey from refugee camps and colonies to the world above the sky. The story covers a span of seven decades of time and space - people and events, politics and economics, corporates and their leaders and above all the kaleidoscopic panorama across the journey through Bengal and India. The book opens up several untraveled terrains - personal experiences, a person's struggle, sufferings, tears, joys and smiles. It documents people's perception about critical contemporary events, which conventional history does not cover. The author writes from the ringside, for example on how it was to work for the most reputed corporate of the country and, what happened in the business and economy when the 'Tiger' was 'Uncaged.' Sure, readers would like to run through the author's experiences. The author has poured his heart and soul out into writing this story.

Author : Jiban Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781645871675

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Rising From the Ashes of Bengal's Partition by Jiban Mukhopadhyay Pdf

Usually books on partition are sob stories, but not this one. ‘Rising from the Ashes of Bengal’s Partition’ is an untold story of the journey of a child born around the time of partition, who battled many hurdles and aspired to lead a new life - like a Phoenix. This is a story of his - and his generation’s - unflinching determination to move ahead. This is the story of the real people who did not curse their fate and sit idle shedding tears. It covers a child’s - and his generations - torturous journey from refugee camps and colonies to the world above the sky. The story covers a span of seven decades of time and space - people and events, politics and economics, corporates and their leaders and above all the kaleidoscopic panorama across the journey through Bengal and India. The book opens up several untraveled terrains - personal experiences, a person’s struggle, sufferings, tears, joys and smiles. It documents people’s perception about critical contemporary events, which conventional history does not cover. The author writes from the ringside, for example on how it was to work for the most reputed corporate of the country and, what happened in the business and economy when the ‘Tiger’ was ‘Uncaged.’ Sure, readers would like to run through the author’s experiences. The author has poured his heart and soul out into writing this story.

Author : Anders Bjørn Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056262507

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Partition and Genocide by Anders Bjørn Hansen Pdf

Author : Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317293880

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Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition by Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Pdf

Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the political and communal aspects of the Partition have received some attention, its enormous personal and psychological costs have been mostly glossed over, particularly when it comes to the splitting of Bengal. The memory of this historical ordeal has been preserved in literary archives, and these archives are still being excavated. This book examines neglected narratives of the Partition of India in 1947 to study the traces left by this foundational trauma on the national- and regional-cultural imaginaries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To arrive at a more complex understanding of how Partition experiences of violence, migration, and displacement shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in South Asia, the author analyses, through novels and short stories, multiple cartographies of disorientation and anxiety in the post-Partition period. The book illuminates how contingencies of political geography cut across personal and collective histories, and how these intersections are variously marked and mediated by literature. Examining works composed in Bengali and other South Asian languages, this book seeks to broaden and complicate existing conceptions of what constitutes the Partition literary archive. A valuable addition to the growing field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, gender studies, and literature.

Author : Suranjan Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029724914

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Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947 by Suranjan Das Pdf

In examining the major riots in Bengal between 1905 and 1947 the author has addressed the following issues: how an increased conjunction of elite and popular communalism created the necessary background for the riots; why the riots lost their initial class basis and became overtly communal; how a crowd-leadership dichotomy often asserted their 'autonomy'; and finally, how the riots promoted communal consciousness at various levels of society and polity which provided an important backdrop to the partition of the province in 1947. Against the background of the larger political dilemmas confronting India in the pre-partition period, this work has analysed the developing relationships between elite and popular participation in violence, and between the religious and secular features of their mobilization.

Author : Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192675828

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Caste and Partition in Bengal by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury Pdf

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened their political autonomy. They were the worst victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as the 'burden' of a frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated in fenced refugee camps where life was unbearable, and then dispersed to other parts of India - first to the Andaman Islands and the neighbouring states, and then to the inhospitable terrains of Dandakaranya, where they could be used as cheap labour for various development projects. This book looks critically at their participation in Partition politics, the reasons for their migration three years after Partition, their insufferable life and struggles in the refugee camps, their negotiations with caste and gender identities in these new environments, their organized protests against camp maladministration, and finally their satyagraha campaigns against the Indian state's refugee dispersal policy. This book looks at how refugee politics impacted Dalit identity and protest movements in post-Partition West Bengal.