All Indians have no shortage of interest in the history of Partition. India is still suffering from the horrors and hellish politics of partition. But the wrong aspects and writing of the history of Partition have long kept Indians in a deep quagmire. Of late, Indians have learned to realize that various historians, influenced by […]
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Keep Reading →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 →An ISPad interview of Ms.Aroma Dutta, granddaughter of Biratma (martyr) Dhirendranath Dutta and niece of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. Subject: Partition of Bengal and Exodus of Hindus. (Copyright: ISPaD)
Keep Reading →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 →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 edited by V.K. Saxena. Kanishka Publishers Distributors 1987. (Information needed on this book, the visitor/reader may submit to our gmail)
Keep Reading →‘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.
Keep Reading →ছেড়ে আসা গ্রাম……..দক্ষিণারঞ্জন বসু প্রণীত এই গ্রন্থে লিপিবদ্ধ হয়েছে পূর্ববঙ্গের ১৮ টি জেলার ৬৪ টি গ্রাম থেকে ভূমিপুত্র-কন্যাদের চলে আসার বৃত্তান্ত.ঠিক এই মুহূর্তে যখন সিরীয় শরণার্থীদের জন্য জার্মানি উন্মুক্ত করে দিচ্ছে দ্বার, যখন মায়ানমারের রোহিঙ্গাদের নিয়েও বিশ্বময় সহানুভূতির ঝড়, তখন আমরা ভুলে যাচ্ছি পৃথিবীর ইতিহাসে সবচেয়ে ট্রাজিক, সবচেয়ে মর্মান্তিক অপসারণের ইতিবৃত্তকে। ১৯৪৭১৯৫০ এই তিন বছরে […]
Keep Reading →The title of this booklet is Bharatmatar Bastraharan (The Disrobing of Mother India). Written during the Second World War, it describes how the general populace suffered due to an acute shortage of clothing material and other essential commodities during the years of conflict. The cover shows a picture of “Mother India” as a poor, yet […]
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