Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192859722
• ISBN13: 9780192859723
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"