Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal

Coming 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.

Author: Gargi Chakravartty
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tulika Books
Published: 07/29/2025
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9788197938351