On the Partition experiences of women in Bengal, see Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta, eds., The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India (Calcutta: Bhatkal and Sen, 2003). 18. I borrow this observation from Rabia Umar Ali, “Muslim Women and the Partition of...
36 For this section we have used, apart from archive material found in the National Ar- chives in Delhi, the West Bengal State Archives (Kolkata) and the Archives in Para- maribo: Grierson (1883); McNeill (1915); Karsten (1930); Hajary (1937: 1-3); De Klerk (1942: 97-117); De...
The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab Province and Bengal Presidency of British India. It was named after its architect, Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the Joint Chairman of the two Boundary Commissions for the two provinces, re...
the process of NRC. In his own words, the refugees(non Muslim migrants) will be granted citizenship and the infiltrators (Muslim migrants – he also referred to them astermitesat one instance) will be thrown out or prosecuted (there was some talk of throwing them into the Bay of Bengal)...
A treaty was concluded in 1711 in which the Mughals obtained three chaklas from Cooch Behar, but the Subahdar of Bengal rejected the treaty and forced Cooch Behar to cede further lands in 1713, reducing it to about its present borders. This second treaty is the origin of the enclaves: ...
separate ethnic group comprised of both Hindus and Muslims, Mus-lims in Mauritius have grouped themselves as a separate ethnic com-munity. By juxtaposing these two cases, we show that we, as scholars,should nota priori, exclude or include Muslims in the ‘Indian dia-spora’. We should inste...