The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations

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List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Partition and Its Afterlife in Bengal
Part I Partition and Refugees
	1 Of Conflict and Cooperation: The Material Implications of British India’s Partition
	2 Divided Landscapes, Fragmented Identities: East Bengal Refugees and Their Rehabilitation in India, 1947–79
	3 Refugeehood in the Eyes of the Refugees: Voices of the Victims of Displacement
Part II Memory, Rememory, and Postmemory
	4 Frozen Time, Partitioned Mind: Tales of Seeking Refuge in West Bengal After Partition
	5 Life Stories and Material Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition
	6 Spaces of Anamnesis: The Partition of India and An/Other Bengal
	7 The “Lost” Land of Barisal: Crafting a “Nostalgia” of East Bengal and the “Pain” of Partition
	8 Partition’s Women: Inherited Memories of Remarkable Lives and Times
	9 The Creation of a Women’s Sphere: Adjusting to an ‘Alien’ Terrain in Post-Partition Bengal
	10 Moving Memories: Remembering, and Forgetting, the Partition of Bengal Between South Asia and the UK
Part III Cultural Representation and Memorialization
	11 Revisiting Bengal Partition: Katha and Myths at the Interface of the Village and the Nation
	12 Memory as Cinematic Praxis: The Art of Ritwik Ghatak
	13 The (im)Possibility of Representing Genocidal Violence: Jewish Museum Berlin, Amritsar Partition Museum and a Case for a Partition Museum in Kolkata
	14 Kolkata Partition Museum: Material Memory Through Subaltern Narratives of Involuntary Migration
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