Professor Sajal Nag, Department of History, Assam University, Silchar, India Anindita Ghoshal’s book demonstrates that coeval to such struggle was an another narrative about refusal of the refugees to be the ‘victims’ of politics anymore and as new ‘arbiter’ of their destiny how they actually shaped the contour of politics in the host country which was, contrary to popular belief, often hostile. The available narrative about the Partition-displaced has been about their struggle for home and security. Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Director, New Zealand India Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand It should therefore be an essential reading for those interested in the long history of Partition. Currently, she works as co-investigator on a research project at the University of Manchester, UK, funded by AHRC (2018–2021).īased on meticulous archival research, this book sheds light on the aftermath of Partition and refugee influx in Assam and Tripura-a region neglected in the extant Partition literature. She has also presented her research in seminars/conferences in India and abroad. She has published various articles in reputed journals, as well as chapters in edited volumes. She has been the recipient of a Major Project Grant by OKDISCD-ICSSR (2017–18), Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship (2015), Academic and Foreign Travel Grant from the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) (Cardiff University, UK, 2013), Gautam Chattopadhyay Memorial Prize by Itihas Samsad (2013), ResearchWriting Fellowship from MCRG (2012), UGC-MRP (2010) and a Short-Term Scholarship from the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka (2009). Her research interests include Partition and refugee studies, with special emphasis on eastern/northeastern India and Bangladesh. Anindita Ghoshal is Associate Professor of History at Diamond Harbour Women’s University, Kolkata, India. Refugees, Borders and Identities will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of refugee studies, border studies, South Asian history, migration studies, Partition studies, sociology, anthropology, political studies, international relations and refugee studies, and for general readers of modern Indian history.
The author also studies how the presence of the refugees shaped the conduct of politics in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura in the decades following Partition. It portrays the crises experienced by refugees in recreating the socio-cultural milieu of the lost motherland and the consequent loss of their linguistic, cultural, economic and ethnic identities. Drawing on extensive research and in-depth fieldwork, this book discusses themes of displacement, rehabilitation, discrimination and politicisation of refugees that preceded and followed the Partition of India in 1947. In the wake of the legalisation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019, this region remains a hotbed of identity and refugee politics. This book examines the impact of Partition on refugees in East and Northeast India and their struggle for identity, space and political rights.
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