Book Review: No Return Address-Stories of Displacement and Alienation
In the preface to No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement, Manjira Majumdar asks pertinent questions—Why was Bengal as a province divided several times by its rulers— was it to administer it better, divide its spoils among the British rulers, “or to break the spirit of a rebellious and creatively inclined community.”
Kolkata Partition Museum: A Virtual Tour
The team’s objective was to create a time travel experience to access Bengal’s history. The broad heads were Bengal Partition, Museum, Border, Subaltern space and Time & Memory. The focus was on the landmark years: 1905 (Bengal partition ordered by viceroy Lord Curzon), 1943 (Bengal famine), 1946 (The Great Calcutta Killings), 1947 (Independence and Partition), 1958 (Resettlement project for East Pakistan refugees in Dandakaranya), 1971 (Birth of Bangladesh) and 1979 (The Marichjhapi Massacre).
Teachers, Movie Stars, and Train Hawkers: Partition, Women, and Wage-Work
We were going through very difficult times. My father didn’t have an income. We had to rent out one room of the small two-room house where we were living, and use the rent-money towards domestic expenses. But it didn’t do much. … So, to help my father run the household, I cast aside all inhibitions and lined up at the gates of the film studio day after day.
Literature and Fiction on Bengal Partition by Dr. Debali Mookherjea-Leonard
Dr. Debali Mookherjea-Leonard is a Professor of English at James Madison University, USA. In this video, she will talk about partition, specifically Bengal Partition in conversation with Dr. Amrita Ghosh