Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men

Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781000654936
ISBN-13 : 1000654931
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Book Synopsis Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men by : Tista Das

Download or read book Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men written by Tista Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were brought about. Drawing heavily on police records, private papers, newspapers and memoirs, this work enters the realm of personal time in the lives of the migrant and refugee and follows them to see how the spaces that they inhabited, the city of Calcutta and its suburbs, were transformed to accommodate them and imposed with new meanings and one might say, new borders. It highlights how ‘fear’ came to be the dominant emotion associated with the migrants’ flight, how it was subsequently politicized and how it became the cornerstone of the refugees’ bargaining with the state. Furthermore, it focuses on how the state, in its attempt to become a charitable institution, put in place a gendered structure of relief and later, rehabilitation. This work also shows how camps and colonies became the sites of political contestation, how the refugees found a brand of Leftist politics particularly useful for their purpose and how it became the cornerstone of their newfound identity. A major intervention in Partition studies, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies and politics.


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