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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. BASU RAY CHAUDHURY BANDYOPADHYAY (ANASUA.), Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as the 'burden' of a frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated in 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 ins

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Author

SEKHAR. BASU RAY CHAUDHURY BANDYOPADHYAY (ANASUA.), Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192675828

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities