"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 refugee settlement, life stories of refugees in camps and colonies, and literary and celluloid representations of Partition. It also probes questions of memory, identity, and the memorialization of events. Eclectic in its theoretical orientation and methodology, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of partition history, colonialism, refugee studies, Indian history, South Asian history, migration studies, and modern history in general"--
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 refugee settlement, life stories of refugees in camps and colonies, and literary and celluloid representations of Partition. It also probes questions of memory, identity, and the memorialization of events.
Eclectic in its theoretical orientation and methodology, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of partition history, colonialism, refugee studies, Indian history, South Asian history, migration studies, and modern history in general.
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.
Introduction: Partition and its Afterlife in Bengal Part I: Partition
and refugees
1. Of Conflict and Cooperation: The Material Implications of
British Indias Partition
2. Divided Landsapes, Fragmented Identities: East
Bengal Refugees and their Rehabilitation in India, 1947-79
3. Refugeehood in
the Eyes of the Refugees: Voices of the Victims of Displacement Part II:
Memory, rememory and postmemory
4. Frozen time, partitioned mind: Tales of
seeking refuge in West Bengal after partition
5. Life Stories and Material
Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition 6.Spaces of
Anamnesis: The Partition of India and An/Other Bengal
7. The Lost Land of
Barisal: Crafting a Nostalgia of East Bengal and the Pain of Partition
8. Partitions Women: Inherited Memories of Remarkable Lives and Times
9.
Creation of a Womens Sphere: Adjusting to an Alien Terrain in
Post-Partition Bengal
10. Moving memories: Remembering, and forgetting, the
Partition of Bengal between South Asia and the United Kingdom Part III:
Cultural representation and memorialization
11. Katha and Myths at the
Interface of the Village and the Nation
12. Memory as cinematic praxis: The
art of Ritwik Ghatak
13. The (im)possibility of representing genocidal
violence: Jewish Museum Berlin, Amritsar Partition Museum and a case for a
Partition Museum in Kolkata
14. Kolkata Partition Museum: Material Memory
through Subaltern Narratives of Involuntary Migration
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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