Partition Hang-ups
Criously this Independence Day,an event that frankly arouses little enthusiasm these days,a major section of vernacular newspapers celebrated the occasion with stories of Partition and of the mighty Vallabhbhai Patel…
Partition of the Sub-continent
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 5: Sketch of a jab and resistance]
The mainstream abstains from discussing two aspects of the partition, a dagger-act: the harm to people's struggle for a democratic, dignified life free from injustice and exploitation, and resistance by…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 4: Two opposing forces]
Two class forces were standing opposed to each other in the land: on the one hand, there was the force of the exploiting classes – the landed and capitalist classes,…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 3: No map?]
How the colonial masters left this land? Two descriptions below tell their exit. Yasmin Khan writes in The Great Partition: The making of India and Pakistan: “[There were no] maps…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 2: Uncontrolled dominion]
V P Menon, as he told about himself in The Transfer of Power in India, “[i]n one capacity or other, from 1917 […] was continuously associated with the constitutional development…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least -Part 1: Flame and Fraternity
The area this article covers is this sub-continent’s partition and Bengal’s bifurcation. To be specific, it looks at a part of people’s journey forward in this land, which carries historic…
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