Thematic Articles

Encountering ‘Identity’: Refugee Women and the Partition of the Subcontinent
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India’s Independence after almost 200 years of colonisation was accompanied by the tragic Partition of the country for which the common masses in general and those on the western and eastern borders, in particular, had to pay a very heavy price.
By Roshni Sharma | Priyanca Mathur Velath
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Nostalgia and the Construction of ‘Home:’ Inter-Generational Memory and Remembrance of the East Bengali Migrants
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Taking the 1947 Partition that created the two nation-states of India and Pakistan as the backdrop, this paper attempts to explore the intense sense of nostalgia deeply embedded in the psyche of the Hindu migrants from East Bengal
By Subhasri Ghosh
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Muhajir Narratives of Homes Lost and Found: Nostalgia and Belonging in the Novels of Intizar Husain and the Columns of The Daily Pasban
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The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan (comprising two ‘wings’ on the west and east of British India) is one of the most colossal and significant redrawing of national borders in recent history.
By Isha Dubey
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Some Fruits of Freedom: Partition and the History of Evacuee Property in Pakistan
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The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was marked by one of the largest migrations in peacetime in modern history. Around twenty million people were displaced by Partition, with Hindus and Sikhs migrating to India and Muslims migrating to Pakistan.
By Ilyas Chattha
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Partition’s Long Shadow: Post-Partition Migration and the Citizenship Conundrum in Postcolonial Assam
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Citizenship is a critical issue of concern for any nation-state. When India became independent, the framers of the Constitution gathered together to determine the basic structure of the new Indian state that was born out of a violent partition.
By Binayak Dutta
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Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families
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Drawing upon the journey of five families across the Bengal border, this piece attempts to explore Partition narratives through the accounts of the second-generation migrants. Three of these families had establishments on both sides of the border, with roots in East Bengal.
By Sayeed Ferdous
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