Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed ChapterBashabi Fraser Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland. |
Contents
About the Translation | 59 |
The Authors and their stories | 91 |
Insignificance | 113 |
The Saviour | 133 |
The Ledger | 147 |
Infidel | 167 |
Honour | 191 |
Here and There | 213 |
The Story of Sonadas Baul | 363 |
Looking Back | 389 |
The Debt of a Generation | 417 |
If | 431 |
Alams Own House | 455 |
Three Generations | 475 |
The Girl was Innocent | 491 |
Infiltration | 519 |
Hindu | 229 |
The Crossing | 249 |
Alien Land | 273 |
India | 291 |
Home Sweet Home | 315 |
Embrace | 341 |
Deliverance | 541 |
Tagore | 569 |
This Border | 595 |
Glossary | 611 |
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