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

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Tista Das (Bankura University, India)

Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men

Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal

Tista Das (Bankura University, India)

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Routledge India
27 May 2024

Regional studies; Asian history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Central government policies

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.

By: Tista Das (Bankura University India)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032342160
ISBN 10: 1032342161
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. .

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.