Unattached women, able-bodied men partition, migration and resettlement in Bengal Das, Tista 1979- creator author. text bibliography History enk 2023 2023 monographic eng print x, 182 pages ; 25 cm "This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were brought about. Drawing heavily on police records, private papers, newspapers and memoirs, this work enters the realm of personal time in the lives of the migrant and refugee and follows them to see how the spaces that they inhabited, the city of Calcutta and its suburbs, were transformed to accommodate them and imposed with new meanings and one might say, new borders. It highlights how 'fear' came to be the dominant emotion associated with the migrants' flight, how it was subsequently politicized, and how it became the cornerstone of the refugees' bargaining with the State. Further, it focuses on how the State, in its attempt to become a charitable institution, put in place a gendered structure of relief and later, rehabilitation. This work also shows how camps and colonies became the sites of political contestation, how the refugees found a brand of Leftist politics particularly useful for their purpose and how it became the cornerstone of their new-found identity. A major intervention in Partition studies, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies, and politics"-- Violence and migration -- Crossing the border -- Camps refugees and the state -- The inmates -- Life in the colonies -- The women of the 1950s. Tista Das. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ii--- Political refugees India West Bengal History 20th century Communism India West Bengal History Sex role India West Bengal History 20th century West Bengal (India) Social conditions West Bengal (India) Politics and government West Bengal (India) Emigration and immigration Bengal (India) History Partition, 1947 Rôle selon le sexe Inde Bengale-Occidental Histoire 20e siècle Communism Emigration and immigration Political refugees Politics and government Sex role Social conditions India Bengal India West Bengal Partition of Bengal (Bengal, India : 1947) fast 1900-1999 fast DS485.B493 D3243 2023 954/.14 Unattached women, able-bodied men Das, Tista, 1979- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 (DLC) 2022014917 9781032306247 1032306246 9781032342160 1032342161 9781003321057 9781000654936 9781000654912 2022014916 pda,print LBSOR/DLC 220424 20250318214247.1 in00005464471 eng