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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.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 196
Publisher: Tulika Books
Imprint: Tulika Books
Publication Date:
29 July 2025
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9788197938351
Format: Hardcover
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‘Refugee women’ was a new social category that owed its very painful birth to the shattering events of Partition. At the same time forced into new public and political roles and identities, they also came to possess spaces that had been denied to them in more secure and sheltered times. The complex dialectic of such a turbulent history is defined and explored in this book with remarkable deftness.
Gargi Chakravartty, a History (Hons) graduate of Presidency College, Calcutta, completed her PhD thesis on ‘Gandhi and Hindu–Muslim Relations (1919–1929)’ from University of Calcutta as a Gandhi Centenary Research Fellow. She taught at Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, for thirty years. Her books include Gandhi: A Challenge to Communalism, P.C. Joshi: A Biography, Charting a New Path: Early Years of National Federation of Indian Women (co-authored with Supriya Chotani), and People’s ‘Warrior’: Words and Worlds of P.C. Joshi (editor).