Barbed Wire: Borders and Partitions in South Asia

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The book is an anthology of creative and critical responses to the many partitions of India within and across borders. By widening and reframing the question of partition in the subcontinent from one event in 1947 to a larger series of partitions, the book presents a deeper perspective both on the concept of partition in understanding South Asia, and understanding the implications from survivors, victims and others. The imagery of the barbed wire in the title is used precisely to confront the jaggedness of experiencing and surviving partition that still haunts the national, literary, religious and political matrices of India.

The volume is a compilation of short stories, poems, articles, news reports and memoirs, with each contributor bringing forth their perception of partition and its effects on their life and identity. The many narratives amplify the human cost of partitions, examining the complexities of a bruised nation at the social, psychological and religious levels of consciousness.

The book will appeal to anyone interested in literary studies, history, politics, sociology, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayita Sengupta

Jayita Sengupta teaches English Literature in South Calcutta Girls College under Calcutta University. She completed her Master of Arts from Calcutta University and M.Phil. and Ph.d from J.M.I., New Delhi. She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Grant in 2000, which enabled her to do research in U.K. and was a British Council Fellow at the Oxford Conference in the same year. Her publications include research articles on post-colonial literatures, critical theory and feminist literatures in journals of repute. Her translations from Bangla to English include, Relationships, short stories by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2003) and In The Other Bengal, a creative travelogue by Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (New Delhi: Foundation for SAARC Writers and Literature, 2005). She has edited a collection of stories from various Indian languages in English translation, The Muffled Heart: Stories of the Disempowered Male (New Delhi: Rupa, 2005) and translated Bani Basu's Novel, Gandharbi, forthcoming from Katha.