Bibliograph

Caste and partition in Bengal, the story of Dalit refugees, 1946-1961, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

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Caste and partition in Bengal, the story of Dalit refugees, 1946-1961, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Caste and partition in Bengal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1333709051

Responsibility statement

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the story of Dalit refugees, 1946-1961

Summary

This text seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened their political autonomy.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

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