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Barbed wire: borders and partitions in South Asia/ edited by Jayita Sengupta.

Contributor(s): Sengupta, Jayita, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Routledge, 2012Description: xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780415501507Other title: Borders and partitions in South Asia [Cover title]Subject(s): Literature and history | Social conditions | India--Bengal | Partition of Bengal (India : 1947) | South AsiaDDC classification: 954.14042

Contents:

Part One Crossings Over: Rememory(ing) the Loss 1. Uprooted /Achintyo Kumar Sengupta 2. 'Hello Khukul' /Indrani Sen 3. Across Boundaries /Anita Das Tandon 4. The Distance to Lahore /Surjit Sama 5. Living the Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind /Ashes Gupta 6. The Ultimate Dislocation: Migrations, Histories and the Human /Jasbir Jain Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence 7. Partition as Leitmotif in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto /Sreemati Mukherjee 8. The Emblematic Body: Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives /Himadri Lahiri 9. Holocausts and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Lajwanti' /Nibir Kumar Ghosh 10. Recalling the 'City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of Partition -Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous /Tutun Mukherjee Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of Survival 11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal /Somdatta Mandal 12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun /Naina Dey Part Two Of Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail: Map Makings and Map Makings (The North-East and The East) 13. Of Nation (An Excerpt) /Debashish Tarafdar 14. Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and Post-colonial Assam /Moushumi Dutta Pathak 15. Me and the World of Militants /Indira [Mamoni Raisom) Goswami 16. At the Crossroads: The Representation of Violence in Contemporary Assamese Poetry /Bibhash Choudhury 17. Locatings /Dilipkanti Laskar 18. Bangladesh: Language Movement and Dhirendranath Datta /Kamaluddin Ahmed 19. Of Bangladesh and East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947 /Jayita Sengupta 20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) /Purabi Bormudoi 21. Pushback /Meenakshi Sen The Acony of Desire: Kashmir 22. A Brief Overview of the Kashmir Issue /Jayita Sengupta 23. In the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) /Tej N. Dhar 24. Special Reports from Kashmir /Kavita Suri Partitions: The Undying Angst 25. Partition Ghazal Keki N. Daruwalla 26. Criminal /Jilani Bano 27. Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition /Ameena Kazi Ansari

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	954.14042 SEN/B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P41608

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One
Crossings Over: Rememory(ing) the Loss
1. Uprooted /Achintyo Kumar Sengupta
2. 'Hello Khukul' /Indrani Sen
3. Across Boundaries /Anita Das Tandon
4. The Distance to Lahore /Surjit Sama
5. Living the Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind /Ashes Gupta
6. The Ultimate Dislocation: Migrations, Histories and the Human /Jasbir Jain

Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence
7. Partition as Leitmotif in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto /Sreemati Mukherjee
8. The Emblematic Body: Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives /Himadri Lahiri
9. Holocausts and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Lajwanti' /Nibir Kumar Ghosh
10. Recalling the 'City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of Partition -Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous /Tutun Mukherjee

Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of Survival
11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal /Somdatta Mandal
12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun /Naina Dey

Part Two
Of Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail:
Map Makings and Map Makings (The North-East and The East)
13. Of Nation (An Excerpt) /Debashish Tarafdar
14. Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and Post-colonial Assam /Moushumi Dutta Pathak
15. Me and the World of Militants /Indira [Mamoni Raisom) Goswami
16. At the Crossroads: The Representation of Violence
in Contemporary Assamese Poetry /Bibhash Choudhury
17. Locatings /Dilipkanti Laskar
18. Bangladesh: Language Movement and Dhirendranath Datta /Kamaluddin Ahmed
19. Of Bangladesh and East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947 /Jayita Sengupta
20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) /Purabi Bormudoi
21. Pushback /Meenakshi Sen

The Acony of Desire: Kashmir
22. A Brief Overview of the Kashmir Issue /Jayita Sengupta
23. In the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) /Tej N. Dhar
24. Special Reports from Kashmir /Kavita Suri

Partitions: The Undying Angst
25. Partition Ghazal Keki N. Daruwalla
26. Criminal /Jilani Bano
27. Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition /Ameena Kazi Ansari

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