15 Aug 1947Partition of Bengal▲ The British Indian province of Bengal is divided between India and Pakistan as part of the Partition of India, after the concept of an independent united Bengal is rejected. The partition prompts millions of migrants to flee across the border. Furthermore, by ...
Partition coefficients are described as the concentration ratio of a chemical amidst the two media at equilibrium. The media can be gases such as air, liquids such as water or olive oil, or complex mixtures such as blood or other tissues. However, the partition coefficients of an uncharged so...
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: ...
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)...
Notes1 http://www.indiandiaspora.nic.in (accessed on 5 June 2007).2 Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean, has been a republic since 1992, and is com-prised of several dependencies: Rodrigues Island, the Agalega Islands and CargadosCarajos Sholas. It also claims sovereignty over the Cha...
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...