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The spoils of partition : Bengal and India, 1947-1967 / Joya Chatterji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chatterji, Joya.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 15.
- Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bengal (India)--History--Partition, 1947.
- Bengal (India).
- India--History--Partition, 1947.
- India.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal event of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the Punjab and the creation of West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about the partition of Bengal. This remarkable book by an acknowledged expert on the subject assesses partition's huge social, economic and political consequences. Using previously unexplored sources, the book shows how and why the borders were redrawn, how the creation of new nation states led to unprecedented upheavals, massive shifts in population and wholly unexpected transformations of the political landscape in both Bengal and India. The book also reveals how the spoils of partition, which the Congress in Bengal had expected from the new boundaries, were squandered over the twenty years which followed. This is an original and challenging work whose findings change our understanding of partition and its consequences for the history of the subcontinent.
- Contents:
- Part I Hopes and fears 17
- 1 The devil in the detail: new borders for a new state 19
- 2 Swings and roundabouts: West Bengal and the new India 61
- Part II The Bengal diaspora 103
- 3 Partition and migration: refugees in West Bengal, 1947-1967 105
- 4 Staying on: partition and West Bengal's Muslim minorities 159
- Part III The politics of a partitioned state 209
- 5 Political reconstruction and change: Congress government and politics, 1947-1967 211
- 6 The revenge of the periphery: the rise of the opposition in West Bengal 260.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521875363
- 0521875366
- OCLC:
- 148830807
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