Book Description
An assessment of the devastating social, political and economic consequences of the partition of Bengal.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : 9781107182103
An assessment of the devastating social, political and economic consequences of the partition of Bengal.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : 9780511378072
An assessment of the devastating social, political and economic consequences of the partition of Bengal.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN :
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521875363
The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal event of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the Punjab and the creation of West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about the partition of Bengal. This remarkable book by an acknowledged expert on the subject assesses the social, economic and political consequences of partition. Using compelling sources, the book, which was originally published in 2007, shows how and why the borders were redrawn, how the creation of new nation states led to unprecedented upheavals, massive shifts in population and wholly unexpected transformations of the political landscape in both Bengal and India. The book also reveals how the spoils of partition, which the Congress in Bengal had expected from the new boundaries, were squandered over the twenty years which followed. This is an intriguing and challenging work whose findings change our understanding and its consequences for the history of the subcontinent.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521523288
An original and compelling account of the Hindu partitionist movement in Bengal.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 143848335X
Partition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book. Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided, shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as the driving force of Partition towards "secular" nationalism and Hindu aggression. Her Spoils of Partition rejected the idea of Partition as a breaking apart, showing it to be a process in the remaking of society and state. Her third book, Bengal Diaspora, cowritten with Claire Alexander and Annu Jalais, challenged the idea of migration and resettlement as exceptional situations. Partition's Legacies can be seen as continuous with Chatterji's earlier work as well as a distillation and expansion of it. Chatterji is known for the elegance of her prose as much as for the sharpness of her insights into Indian history, and Partition's Legacies will enthrall everyone interested in modern India's apocalyptic past. "What emerges from the essays," David Washbrook writes in the introduction, "is often quite startling. The demarcation of Partition followed no master plan or even coherent strategy but was made up of myriad ad hoc decisions taken on the ground, often by obscure actors. Refugee policy, immigrant rights, and even definitions of national citizenship ... were produced by no deus ex machina but out of day-to-day struggles on the streets and in the courts."
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN :
Author : Paul Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226743446
Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.
Author : Debjani Sengupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : 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.
Author : Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108620337
Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.