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Caste and partition in Bengal : the story of Dalit refugees, 1946-1961 / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191953033Subject(s): Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century | Dalits -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century | India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
| History | Asian historyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780192859723DDC classification: 954.14042 LOC classification: DS485.B46Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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