Vol. VI
Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2023 & March 2024
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Silent Psychological Division out of ‘Social Distancing’: Roots of Bengal Partition through Sociocultural Prism
This one-liner in the book Identity of a Muslim Family in Colonial Bengal: Between Memories and History (New York: Peter Lang, 2021) by Mohammad Rashiduzzaman is enough to make one understand the enormity of the rift between Hindus and Muslims in colonial Bengal.
READ MOREGhoshal, Anindita. 2022. Revisiting Partition: Contestation, Narratives and Memories. New Delhi: Primus Books. Pages xvii+494. Price INR 1450. ISBN 978-93-5572-147-1.
Even after 75 years, the study of the Partition of British India in 1947 remains an ambitious project for many scholars. Over the years, not only historians but also people trained in other academic disciplines have attempted to interpret the Partition in their ways.
READ MOREAsia Travels: Pan-Asian Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English by Himadri Lahiri
While mapping the history of migration in Asia, Sunil S. Amrith observes, “Migration has been a widespread experience in many regions of Asia”, and “Asian history” can be studied “in more mobile terms” by focusing on the travelling of migrants across national borders
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The Silenced Annals of Partition Historiography
Refugees, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India brings together comprehensive documentation of the impact of Partition on refugees in eastern and northeastern India and the struggle for identity, space and political rights that followed Partition in 1947.
READ MOREIndian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia, Ranikhet
While there has been a plethora of writing on the migration of indentured labour in recent years, what remained largely unexamined was the role of the state. Mongia addresses this gap by answering two important questions: how did states come to control migration, and what do these controls tell us about state formation and operation?
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Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
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