Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Select Glossary -- Introduction -- The Bengal Landscape and the Partition -- Writing the Partition -- The Argument and the Narrative -- Notes -- Part I: The Hindu from Noakhali and the Muslim from Bihar -- Chapter 1: Violence and Migration -- 1940s -- 1950s -- 1960s -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Crossing the Border -- The Wave Continues -- The Journey to India -- Arson and Looting -- Assault on Passengers -- They Were Forewarned -- The Hazardous Journey
Everything Left Behind -- A Noble Example -- Railway Station -- Notes -- Part II: Through Barbed Wires -- Chapter 3: Camp Refugees and the State -- The Permanent Liabilities -- Infirmaries -- Homes -- Vagrants' Homes -- Rehabilitation -- Government Figures -- Rehabilitation Measures in the East and the West Compared -- Men on the Spot -- The Rehabilitation Puzzle -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Inmates -- Ranaghat Cooper's Camp and Rupasree Palli -- Dhubulia Camp -- Chandmari Camp -- Other Camps and Colonies within West Bengal -- Refugee Organization: The Case of the Lake Barracks
Ballygunge Circular Road Camp -- Dandakaranya and Mana -- Notes -- Part III: Creating Homes -- Chapter 5: Life in the Colonies -- The Refugee and the Changing Cityscape -- The Spokesmen -- The NVBKP -- The UCRC -- Bijoygarh and the First Squatters' Colonies -- Azadgarh -- Chittaranjan Colony -- Netaji Colony in Baranagar -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Women of the 1950s -- Living with the Government -- Colony Women -- The Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti and the CPI Women's Wing -- Going Out to Work -- Notes -- End Words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Printed Documents -- Newspapers
Contemporary Books and Memoirs -- English -- Bengali -- Secondary Sources -- English -- Bengali -- Journals and Periodicals -- English -- Bengali -- Index
