Coming Out of Partition

Refugee Women of Bengal
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-81-979383-5-1
Verlag: Unknown

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Out of Partition is a narrative of the Bengali refugee women, both Hindus and Muslims after the Partition of India in 1947. The story of their struggle is not merely a saga of mental and physical trauma, which did exist, but also a portrayal of their hardship experiences for shelter, rehabilitation and employment. In this arduous journey, they came out of Partition and emerged as new women of a distinct category, self-reliant, and soon turned into social, cultural and political activists of a progressive secular dimension. Spaces and roles they could acquire in this new alien situation were earlier denied in their sheltered and secure places in the pre-Partition days.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravartty, Gargi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Über Autor(innen)

Gargi Chakravartty, taught in the Department of History, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. Her book, Gandhi: A Challenge to Communalism, a critical appraisal of Gandhi's struggle against the forces of communalism, was published in 1987. She is also the author of P.C. Joshi: A Biography (2007), and editor of People’s ‘Warrior’: Words and Worlds of P.C. Joshi (2014).