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Caste and Partition in Bengal: the Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Caste and Partition in Bengal: the Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 about?
The book 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. They were the worst vi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Academic UK
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192675828
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Social History, Asian History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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