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020			_a978-0-19-285972-3
040			_aMahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library _bEnglish
041	0		_aeng
082	0	4	_223 _a305.5688095414 _bBAN
100	1		_aBandyopadhyay, Sekhar _eaut
245	1	0	_aCaste and partition in Bengal _bthe story of dalit refugees, 1946-1961 _cSekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
260			_aOxford _bOxford Univ. Press _c2022
300			_ax, 272 p. _c23 cm
504			_aincl. bibliographical references and index
505	0	0	_aAcknowledgements -- 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			_a"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	_aDalits
650		4	_aDalits _xHistory _y20th century _zIndia _zBengal
650		4	_aHistory _933
650		4	_aPolitics and government _ySince 1900
651		4	_aBengal (India) _xHistory _y20th century
651		4	_aIndia
651		4	_aIndia _zBengal
651		4	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y1947-
700	1		_aBasu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua _eaut
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