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This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian
history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide
currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or
intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with
particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a
region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the
‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as
the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry
terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta
and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various
administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings
to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated
with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume
explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the
region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as
administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped
the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the
study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of
great interest to scholars and researchers of science and
technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and
South Asian studies.
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.
This volume looks at the concept of the 'local' in Indian history.
Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide
currents-be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or
intellectual rhythms-simultaneously inform and interact with
particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a
region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the
'local' gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the
frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry
terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta
and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various
administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings
to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated
with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume
explore a variety of themes-textual representations of the region,
epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as
administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped
the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the
study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of
great interest to scholars and researchers of science and
technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and
South Asian studies.
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