Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter (Anthem South Asian Studies)

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland. Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction About the Translation About the Stories The Maps Poem: ‘Mob Fury’ The Stories The Solution • Rabindranath Tagore The Protector • Annada Shankar Ray Insignificance • Nabendu Ghosh The Saviour • Nabendu Ghosh The Ledger • Manik Bandyopadhyay Treaty • Achintya Kumar Sengupta Loss • Gour Kishore Ghosh Infidel • Atin Bandyopadhyay Boatman • Prafulla Roy Honour • Narayan Gangopadhyay In a Place and in a Land • Manik Bandyopadhyay Here and There • Manoj Basu Hindu • Dibyendu Palit Acharya Kripalani Colony • Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay The Crossing • Jyotirrnoyee Devi A Thom in the Path • Ramesh Chandra Sen Alien Land • Annada Shankar Ray The Border • SalamAzad India • Sayyed Mustafa Siraj Poem: ‘An Abducted Woman: The Loot’ Illegitimate • Narendranath Mitra Home, Sweet Home! • Samaresh Dasgupta The Stricken Daughter • Ramapada Chaudhury Embrace • Ramapada Chaudhuri Kings Come and Kings Go • Prafulla Roy The Story of Sonadas Baul • Imdadul Haq Milan Of Ram and Rahim • Mahasweta Devi Looking Back • Selina Hossain Refugee • Debesh Roy The Debt of a Generation • Dipankar Das If • Sunil Gangopadhyay Another Tune in Another Room • Akhtaruzzaman Elias Alam’s Own House • Dibyendu Palit Three Generations • Salam Azad Rehabilitation • Abhra Roy The Girl was Innocent • Imdadul Haq Milan Infiltration • Prafulla Roy Deliverance • Tridib Sengupta Tagore • Swapnamoy Chakrabarty Wild-Goose Country • Amar Mitra Poem: ‘This Border’ The Translators The Authors Bibliograplry Glossary