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Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men - Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal (Hardcover)
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Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men - Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal (Hardcover)
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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.
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