Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

Author:   Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) ,  Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury (Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192859723


Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) ,  Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury (Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780192859723


ISBN 10:   0192859722
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Introduction 2: Caste and Partition 3: The Great Exodus 4: Camps and Borderlands 5: State and Rehabilitation 6: Politics and Resistance 7: Conclusion

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The book is a very timely and important addition to the burgeoning field of Dalits in Partition studies- Dr Pallavi Chakravarty, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.


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Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he was the founding Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute. He also taught at the University of Calcutta and Kalyani University in India. Educated at Presidency College and University of Calcutta, his primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste in colonial and postcolonial India as well as history of the Indian diaspora. Bandyopadhyay has published extensively in these areas. He is a recipient of the Rabindra Smriti Puraskar and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata. She mentors research on migration and displacement, public perception, and connectivity. She is the recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Senior Media Fellowship (2007) and the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo (1998-99). Chaudhury has also worked with Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. She was ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellow (2004-06) at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi) and Visiting Fellow at The Maison des Sciences de I'Homme (Paris). She specializes in South Asia, refugees, forced migration, and women in conflict zones.

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