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Author Sengupta, Debjani

Title The partition of Bengal : fragile borders and new identities / Debjani Sengupta
Published Daryaganj, Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)
Contents The Calcutta riots in representations and testimonies -- Noakhali and after : history, memory and representations -- Colony fiction : displacement and belonging in post-partition Bangla fiction -- From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi : refugee rehabilitation in Bangla partition fictions -- The partition's afterlife : nation and narration from the north east of India and Bangladesh -- Uncanny landscapes and unstable borders : politics and identity in geo-narratives of the partition (2005-2010)
Summary "Provides insights into current literary and cultural criticisms and focuses on certain influences of specific histories to develop a macro-historical perspective on partition"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Collective memory -- India -- Bengal
Collective memory -- Bangladesh
Partition, Territorial -- Social aspects -- India -- Bengal -- Historiography
Partition, Territorial -- Social aspects -- Bangladesh -- Historiography
Nationalism -- India -- Bengal -- Historiography
Nationalism -- Bangladesh -- Historiography
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Bengali fiction
Collective memory
Historiography
Literature
Nationalism -- Historiography
Partition, Territorial, in literature
SUBJECT Bengal (India) -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Historiography
Bengal (India) -- In literature
Bengali fiction -- History and criticism
Subject Bangladesh
India -- Bengal
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107448155
1107448158
9781316675137
1316675130