Purba Pakistan Zindabad: Bengali Visions of Pakistan, 1940–1947

Bose, Neilesh

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“…Instead, he found the emerging identity attached to 'East Bengaliness'. This reminds me of Neilesh Bose's discussion on Bengali Musalman writers and editors who claimed a Pakistani (or should I say anti-Indian) identity but also asserted their linguistic and cultural East Bengal heritage (Bose 2014). This claim of distinctiveness set the East Bengalis apart from both the Indian/West Bengal and Pakistani/West Pakistani identities.…”

Section: Life On 'This Side'mentioning

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Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families

Ferdous¹

2021

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Drawing upon the journey of five families across the Bengal border, this piece attempts to explore Partition narratives through the accounts of the second-generation migrants. Three of these families had establishments on both sides of the border, with roots in East Bengal. Of the rest, one came from Haora (or Howrah), near Calcutta (now Kolkata), and the other from Jangipur, near Murshidabad.With a degree of variation, the migrating generation from all these families was educated, with some holding excellent academic credentials, and endowed with social and cultural capital. In most cases, these families had members doing salaried jobs in both the private and public sectors; there were business persons and politicians. Some were landed gentry. Two families had zamindari during those years of Partition. One family had seen the decline of their zamindari, with education saving them. One family member from a relatively rural area was determined: 'Ekta kichhu korte hobe' (I have to do something). Calcutta, the hub of opportunities, seemed to be a long way from him and his family. The remaining four, however, had close contact with Calcutta if not residing there permanently. They were accustomed to an urban lifestyle. While these differences impacted the way they encountered Partition, migration, and life on 'this side', with their varied professional and economic abilities, descendants of these families are well established in present-day Bangladesh (earlier East Bengal) with more or less great control over social capital. Does that mean educated, middleclass Bengali Muslim migrants from India had a smooth transit through Partition? Did they experience very little of the hardship or bitterness associated with the series of events that took place in the years preceding and following 1947?

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Section: Life On 'This Side'mentioning

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Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families

Ferdous¹

2021

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“…Amidst these whirlwinds of high politics, it becomes necessary to understand the cultural and socio-economic implications of the Pakistan plan, for both concern the common man’s perspective that remains outside the pale of nationalist historiography. For instance, in keeping with the seamless Bengali identity based on common language and shared culture, the East Pakistan Renaissance Society espoused an understanding of freedom concerning ‘the creation of a total cultural programme’ (Bose, 2014, p. 9) instead of the binary exclusive state(s) proposed by the political leadership. As a unifying factor, language, and thereby the syncretic culture of Bengal, was too strong an influence to let the fact of Islamic religious identity serve as a common denominator that could bring together Muslims of Bengal and Punjab under the yoke of Pakistan.…”

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Mangled Homes, Tangled Homeland: Religion and Gender in Tanvir Mokammel’s Chitra Nadir Pare

Mukherjee¹

2022

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

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The oeuvre of Tanvir Mokammel majorly centres on his conviction that the Indian Partition of 1947 has long-standing ramifications for Bangladesh. While nationalist historiography understandably privileges the Liberation War of 1971 as the arrival of nationhood in Bangladesh, Mokammel persistently argues for the relevance of historical continuities in understanding both the aspirations and ruptures underlying the nation project over the last 50 years. This article analyses his film Chitra Nadir Pare (Quiet Flows the Chitra, 1998) for Mokammel’s representation of the complex ways in which the matrices of religion and gender have subversively operated in the intervening decades between 1947 and 1971 to rupture a hitherto syncretic Bengali identity, leading to displacements and statelessness. This re-historicising of the mid-twentieth-century cataclysm and its analysis in the second decade of the twenty-first century prioritise film as an authentic medium of cultural history that bears deep implications in the present time.

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Partition Studies: Prospects and Pitfalls

Chatterji¹

2014

J of Asian Stud

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Partition, unquestionably a pivotal event of the South Asian twentieth century, has become a subject of great significance in its own right.1Studies of partition began with a profound reexamination of why it happened;2they gathered momentum as scholars looked at the provincial and local roots of the drive to divide India;3and the subject took a big step forward when oral histories revealed how women and men experienced the traumas of its bloody upheavals, the violence of “the burning plains of the Punjab” becoming a metaphor for partition itself.4

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Purba Pakistan Zindabad: Bengali Visions of Pakistan, 1940–1947

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Cited by 8 publications

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Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families

Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families

Mangled Homes, Tangled Homeland: Religion and Gender in Tanvir Mokammel’s Chitra Nadir Pare

Partition Studies: Prospects and Pitfalls

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