Book Review Joya Chatterji, Partition’s Legacies, with an introduction by David Washbrook
The publication of an anthology of Joya Chatterji's essays is a welcome event, since her substantial oeuvre, while focused on the social and political history of Bengal, has contributed to broader fields of inquiry relating to decolonization in South Asia. Not only has she helped shift the onus...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2021
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Nidān
Year: 2021, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 94-97 |
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| Summary: | The publication of an anthology of Joya Chatterji's essays is a welcome event, since her substantial oeuvre, while focused on the social and political history of Bengal, has contributed to broader fields of inquiry relating to decolonization in South Asia. Not only has she helped shift the onus of scholarly interest in Partition from the Punjab (which, for many, still remains a synecdoche for the gruesome events of 1947) to the Bengal delta; she has consistently used her "location" in Bengal to tease out unique histories of borders and refugees, and, more recently, of citizenship. This intertwining of local and global concerns has long set her work apart, and the thirteen essays collected in Partition's Legacies are meant to show, as the late David Washbrook notes in his introduction to the volume, "both Bengal in the world and the world in Bengal" , |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2021.1 |