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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
978-0-19-285972-3 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library |
| Language of cataloging |
English |
| 041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| DDC Edition No. |
23 |
| Class No. |
305.5688095414 |
| Item number |
BAN |
| 100 1# - FIRST AUTHOR (IF A PERSON) |
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| Name of author |
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar |
| Role |
Author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Caste and partition in Bengal |
| Sub-title |
the story of dalit refugees, 1946-1961 |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford Univ. Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| No. of pages |
x, 272 p. |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
incl. bibliographical references and index |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 1. Caste and Partition --2. The Great Exodus --3. Camps and Borderlands -- 4. State and Rehabilitation -- 5. Politics and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Riot, Massacre, and the Recovery of self -- Bibliography -- Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"This book situates 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. This book addresses 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. Indeed, they were the worst victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as a ‘burden’ for the frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated into fenced refugee camps where life was unbearable, and then dispersed to other parts of India—first to the Andaman Islands and the neighbouring states, and then to the inhospitable terrains of Dandakaranya, where they could be used as cheap labour for various development projects. This book looks critically at their participation in Partition politics, the reasons for their migration three years after Partition, their insufferable life and struggles in the refugee camps, their negotiations with caste and gender identities in these new environments, their organised protests against camp maladministration, and finally their satyagraha campaigns against the Indian state’s refugee dispersal policy. This book looks at how refugee politics impacted Dalit identity and protest movements in post-Partition West Bengal" -- Provided by the publisher |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject heading |
Dalits |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject heading |
Dalits |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
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Bengal |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject heading |
History |
| 9 (RLIN) |
33 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject heading |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
Since 1900 |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Bengal (India) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
India |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
India |
| Geographic subdivision |
Bengal |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
India |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1947- |
| 700 1# - ADDITIONAL AUTHOR (INDIVIDUAL) |
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| Author name |
Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua |
| Role |
Author |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
