Freedom is never voluntarilly given
Freedom is never voluntarilly given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King Jr.
Keep Reading →নতুন ইহুদি – Notun Ihudi (The New Jews)
Book by Salil Sen
Keep Reading →From Plassey to Partition
From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Orient Blackswan 2004. From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It covers about two hundred years of political and socio-economic turbulence. Of particular interest to the contemporary reader will be sections such as […]
Keep Reading →Coming out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal
Coming out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal by Gargi Chakravartty. Bluejay Books 2005. This books sheds light on the conditions of the refugee women of Bengal.
Keep Reading →Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter
Edited by Bashabi Fraser. Anthem Press 2006. This book throws new light on post-colonial evaluations of the Partition and its effect on eastern India. Until very recently, a striking state of ‘near silence’ has existed concerning the violence encountered by those who fled across the Bengal border. Bengal Partition Stories addresses this silence through the […]
Keep Reading →Region & Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent
Edited by Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh, Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks(OUP Pakistan), 1999. This book gives a comparative perspective on the two Muslim majority areas of India which were separated in 1947 and were the most affected by the turmoil that followed the divide. It presents insights into both the consequences of creating new boundaries, the […]
Keep Reading →The Partition of Bengal
The Partition of Bengal edited by V.K. Saxena. Kanishka Publishers Distributors 1987. (Information needed on this book, the visitor/reader may submit to our gmail)
Keep Reading →A Partition Diary
A PARTITION DIARYSuhasini Das (1915 – 2009) was a Bengali social worker and freedom fighter who participated in the Non-Cooperation and Quit Indian movement Suhasini Das (born 1915 in Jagannathpur village in Sunamganj district, East Bengal) is a legendary figure. Social worker and Gandhian activist, she refused to cross over from Sylhet to India in […]
Keep Reading →দ্য ব্লাড টেলিগ্রামঃ গ্যারি জে. বেস
আমেরিকায় প্রকাশিত একটি বই বাংলাদেশের মুক্তিযুদ্ধ নিয়ে বড়সড় বিতর্কের ঝড় তোলে। প্রিন্সটন বিশ্ববিদ্যলয়ের রাজনীতি এবং আন্তর্জাতিক বিষয়ের অধ্যাপক গ্যারি জে বাস তার প্রকাশিত “ দি ব্ল্যাড টেলিগ্রাম : নিক্সন কিসিঞ্জার অ্যান্ড এ ফরগটন জেনোসাইড ” বইতে লিখেছেন, ১৯৭১ সালে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের শুরুতেই পাকিস্তানী সেনাবাহিনী বাংলাদেশের প্রায় এক লাখ হিন্দুকে নির্বিচারে খুন করেছিল। তৎকলীন পূর্ব পাকিস্তানে আক্ষরিক […]
Keep Reading →My People Uprooted: যা ছিল আমার দেশ
‘My People Uprooted Ja Chillo Amar Desh’by Tathagata Roy. The Book captures the testimony of Bengali Hindu persecution during Bengal partition that has always been purposefully suppressed by historians and academicians in India.
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