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ISBN 10: 1000654931
ISBN 13: 9781000654936
Author: Tista Das

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 lives of the migrant and refugee and follows them to see how the spaces that they inhabited, the city of Calcutta and its suburbs, were transformed to accommodate them and imposed with new meanings and one might say, new borders. It highlights how ‘fear’ came to be the dominant emotion associated with the migrants’ flight, how it was subsequently politicized and how it became the cornerstone of the refugees’ bargaining with the state. Furthermore, it focuses on how the state, in its attempt to become a charitable institution, put in place a gendered structure of relief and later, rehabilitation. This work also shows how camps and colonies became the sites of political contestation, how the refugees found a brand of Leftist politics particularly useful for their purpose and how it became the cornerstone of their newfound identity. A major intervention in Partition studies, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies and politics.

Unattached Women Able Bodied Men Partition Migration and Resettlement in Bengal 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Hindu from Noakhali and the Muslim from Bihar
1. Violence and Migration

• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• Notes

2. Crossing the Border

• The Wave Continues
• The Journey to India
• Arson and Looting
• Assault on Passengers
• They Were Forewarned
• The Hazardous Journey
• Everything Left Behind
• A Noble Example
• Railway Station
• Notes

Part II: Through Barbed Wires
3. Camp Refugees and the State

• The Permanent Liabilities
• Infirmaries
• Homes
• Vagrants’ Homes
• Rehabilitation – Government Figures
• Rehabilitation Measures in the East and the West Compared
• Men on the Spot
• The Rehabilitation Puzzle
• Notes

4. The Inmates

• Ranaghat Cooper’s Camp and Rupasree Palli
• Dhubulia Camp
• Chandmari Camp
• Other Camps and Colonies within West Bengal
• Refugee Organization: The Case of the Lake Barracks
• Ballygunge Circular Road Camp
• Dandakaranya and Mana
• Notes

Part III: Creating Homes
5. Life in the Colonies

• The Refugee and the Changing Cityscape
• The Spokesmen
• The NVBKP
• The UCRC
• Bijoygarh and the First Squatters’ Colonies
• Azadgarh
• Chittaranjan Colony
• Netaji Colony in Baranagar
• Notes

6. The Women of the 1950s

• Living with the Government
• Colony Women
• The Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti and the CPI Women’s Wing
• Going Out to Work
• Notes

End Words

• Notes

Bibliography

• Primary Sources
  • Special Branch Records
  • Printed Documents
  • Newspapers
  • Contemporary Books and Memoirs
    • English
    • Bengali
• Secondary Sources
  • English
  • Bengali
• Journals and Periodicals
  • English
  • Bengali

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