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Partition trauma, migration and divided ethnicities in North Bengal

Title
Partition trauma, migration and divided ethnicities in North Bengal / Supam Biswas.
Author
Biswas, Supam
Publication
  • New Delhi : Abhijeet Publications, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Description
226 pages; 23 cm
Summary
This book focuses on the partition of India and the dilemmas of North Bengal. It further sheds new light on the changing demographic profile of the region, its administrative reorganisation and jurisdiction changes, and socio-political tensions in North Bengal since 1947. The book addresses the contesting identities, inter-state/districts migration in North Bengal. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, migration and Diaspora studies.
Subject
  • 1947
  • Identity politics > India > West Bengal
  • Migration, Internal > India > West Bengal
  • Ethnicity > India > West Bengal
  • Ethnicity
  • Identity politics
  • Migration, Internal
  • Bengal (India) > History > Partition, 1947
  • India > History > 1947-
  • India > History > Influence. > Partition, 1947
  • India > Bengal
  • India > West Bengal
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-221) and index.
Contents
Partition and the demographic changes -- The polemic of ethnic identity politics : displacement of the unfateful minorities -- The administrative reorganisation and changes in the jurisdiction -- Bengal-Bihar merger resistance movement -- Unsettling identities : homeland and politics.
Call Number
JFD 24-755
ISBN
  • 9789392816017
  • 9392816014
LCCN
2020511078
OCLC
1320819234
Author
Biswas, Supam, author.
Title
Partition trauma, migration and divided ethnicities in North Bengal / Supam Biswas.
Publisher
New Delhi : Abhijeet Publications, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-221) and index.
Chronological Term
1947
Research Call Number
JFD 24-755
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