Partition, the break-up of colonial India in 1947, has been thesubject of substantial research, but the focus has been almostexclusively on the best-known dividing of Punjab and Bengal. Thiswork presents the little-known story of the district of Sylhet incolonial Assam, partitioned and ceded to East Pakistan following areferendum in July 1947. Unique in Partition historiography, thisresearch presents memories of the 1947 Sylhet Referendum andPartition, using oral ...
