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    Anindita Chakrabarty

    Anindita Chakrabarty (anindita.chakrabarty60@gmail.com) is a research scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

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  • Migrant Identity at the Intersection of Postcolonialism and Modernity

    The post-Partition Indian state has become the place of residence for significant undocumented migrants from erstwhile East Bengal as well as present-day Bangladesh. The presence of these migrants has led to contentious questions of citizenship, residency, identity, belonging and legality. Migrants’ identity is caught between the dilemma of pre-existing cultural markers based on differences of language, religion, caste, and the modernist approach

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