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Acclaimed senior academics like Ajjaz Ahmad, Prabhat Patnaik and Sobhanlal Dattagupta, on the one hand, and young energetic researchers like Srinivasan Ramani, Maidul Islam and Taimur Rahman, on the other, have contributed to the making of this volume which focuses on democratic governance and politics of the left in South Asia. The essays included cover an astonishingly wide range. While Pradhat Patnaik deliberates on the questions of identity and Marxian ...
In this book, the trauma of the Partition in Eastern India is discussed explicitly in a way that has not happened before. Drawing upon interviews with women who were uprooted from old East Bengal, on diaries, memoirs and creative literature, the editors lift the veil of silence that has surrounded the Bengal Partition of 1947. The lack of overt public discourse has meant that people outside Bengal have tendeedto believe that the impact was very much less on the ...