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Memories of arrival : a voice from the margins / by Adhir Biswas ; translated from Bangla by V. Ramaswamy.
Van Pelt Library PK1730.15.I77535 Z46 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biśvāsa, Adhīra, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biśvāsa, Adhīra, 1955-.
- Biśvāsa, Adhīra.
- Authors, Bengali--Biography.
- Authors, Bengali.
- Internal migrants--India.
- Internal migrants.
- Rural-urban migration--India.
- Rural-urban migration.
- India.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 303 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Book 1 SETTING FOOT ON ALLAH'S LAND
- Preface: One Step at a Time
- 1. Setting Foot on Allah's Land
- 2. What Did Baba Write?
- 3. The Old School: The Red Colour Book
- 4. It Was to Take Me That the Train Arrived
- 5. The First Lie
- 6. Bed Number Twenty-Eight
- 7. The Silver Screen of Madhumati
- 8. Rani not Kuti
- 9. Dewdrops
- 10. Fortune Smiled at Dawn
- 11. Barefoot, Alta on the Feet
- 12. The World of Weeds
- 13. Dadu Was Looking for a Second-Time Groom
- 14. The Old Cross Mark
- 15. Small Pica, a Rupee and a Half
- 16. The Make-Believe Shop
- 17. The Wheel of the Returning Chariot
- 18. Rubia, Chikan and Puffed Sleeves
- 19. Still Weeping
- 20. Had I Been Able to Inspire with Dreams?
- Book 2 A REFUGEE ALMANAC
- Preface: Is a Country Only Dreams and Memories?
- 21. Are You the One Who ...?
- 22. An Ear of Paddy and a Blade of Grass
- 23. Tenant Wanted: A Small Role
- 24. How Much Would Saira Have Asked For?
- 25. The Maidan on 23 January
- 26. Strangers
- 27. Padabali Kirtan
- 28. A Small-Size Letter, Arun Sanyal
- 29. Was the Minister Himself Taking the Bribe?
- 30. Fragrant Flower Incense
- 31. Do You Want to Hear How I Got the Money?
- 32. The East Bengal Ground, Thangaraj at the Goal
- 33. Is It All from College?
- 34. Rupu's Dot
- Book 3 LETS GO TO INDIA!
- Uttam-Suchitra's Calcutta through Refugee Eyes
- Preface: Fire!
- 35. I Live in the City of Uttam-Suchitra
- 36. Once the Chain Began Landing
- -Run Man, Run!
- 37. Days of Looking for Work
- 38. Calcutta's Far Away
- 39. Wasn't There a Sari That Belonged to Ma?
- 40. Inquilab Zindabad!
- 41. I Left the Country after Being Promoted to Class Six
- 42. Barbodhu and Miss Shefali
- 43. Dada, Two on the Side
- 44. Sackcloth Cinema, Nineteen Paise
- 45. Santoshda Didn't Return to the Village
- 46. 1 Don't Want to Weep like Dada
- 47. Independence Day, Free Cinema
- 48. A Wretched Face
- 49. Calcutta 71
- Book 4 A FLAVOUR OF THE MAIDAN
- The Calcutta Maidan through Refugee Eyes
- Preface: The Calcutta Maidan through Refugee Eyes
- 50. Rivers and Streams, Hilsa Fish and Village
- 51. The Maidan for a Hundred-Thousand
- 52. This River, That Bank
- 53. Had the Corpse Decomposed?
- 54. There's No One Nearby Now
- 55. The Late Subedar
- 56. Since When, Kid?
- 57. Why Had He Held Me So Tight?
- 58. Won't You Collect the Body?
- 59. We're Going through the Maidan Now
- 60. Tenants of Fort William
- 61. Could One Climb Up the Wall of Victoria Memorial?
- 62. Why So Many Questions?
- 63. The Red Light Lane
- 64. Badal Sarkar.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789381345733
- 9381345732
- OCLC:
- 1289287494
- Publisher Number:
- 99990591789
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