Bengal partition stories : an unclosed chapter / edited by Bashabi Fraser ; translated by Sheila Sen Gupta [and others].

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2006.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 622 pages).

Availability

Available Online

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Subject(s)
Series
Anthem South Asian studies [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-609).
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
Translated from Bengali.
Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • About the Translation
  • About the Stories
  • The Authors and their stories 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, Jyotirmoyee Devi
  • A Thorn in the Path, Ramesh Chandra Sen
  • Alien Land, Annada Shankar Ray
  • The Border, Salam Azad
  • 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 Chaudhury.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary.
ISBN
  • 9781843313571 ((electronic bk.))
  • 184331357X ((electronic bk.))
  • 0857286951
  • 9780857286956
LCCN
2006013932
OCLC
607770618
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