This Bengal Partition Refugee Camp

East Bengali Refugees are people who left East Bengal following the Partition of Bengal, which was part of the Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.

This Bengal Partition Refugee Camp, Remembering Comes at a Cost

As India marks it's 75th year of Independence, we take you to one of the largest, lesser known refugee camps-- The Cooper's Camp in Nadia, ...

The Story of the 1947 Partition as Told by the People Who Were There

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister, was commissioned to divide the regions of Punjab and Bengal, based on religious majorities: Muslim-dominant areas went ...

Camps and Borderlands | Caste and Partition in Bengal

After arriving in West Bengal, the Dalit peasant refugees were first taken to various refugee camps scattered across the state. The chapter begins with a ...

The Agony, Penury and Politics of Bengal's Refugees - The Wire

The government's response to the Partition victims in Bengal was singularly different from their response to Punjab's refugees. The Partition ...

The forgotten refugees who wait for justice after 60 years | World news

They fled the slaughter of India's partition. Now 7000 still live in 'temporary' Coopers Camp, West Bengal.

The Refugee Colonies of Kolkata: History, Politics and Memory

Anwesha Sengupta · Calcutta (Kolkata) was deeply affected by the partition of British India. · Calcutta, being the most important urban centre of this region, ...

Bengal Partition Refugees at Sealdah Railway Station, 1950–60

The experiences of Bengali Hindu refugees have been extensively researched by scholars of partition, studying government-run relief camps and ...

India partition: the Red Cross response to the refugee crisis

Refugee camps were established across the Indian sub-continent with the largest emerging in Lahore and Delhi. Help across borders. The British ...

Refugee Rehabilitation in Bangla Partition Fictions (Chapter 4)

When India's partition took place in 1947 East Bengal had a sizeable Hindu population. In the first few months about 344,000 refugees came into West Bengal, ...

Chronicling Resettlement - KOLKATA PARTITION MUSEUM

The period of 1948-1949 was crucial. In some ways, this period determined whether the refugees could remain in West Bengal. The landlords hired goons to make ...

Sumallya Mukhopadhyay: Refugees from East Pak - CCYSC

It must also be borne in mind that the protracted nature of the Partition in the Bengal borderlands led to the construction of multiple camps in West Bengal.

Partition and its aftermath in common lore, cinema, and literature

The migration out of East Bengal was very different from the rush of refugees into India from West Pakistan, which was immediate and immense as ...

Partition of Bengal: Impact on Displaced Women and their ...

These partitions played a crucial role among the inhabitants of both regions and they started to leave their country of origin. Hindus from East Pakistan ...

The Forgotten Survivors: Two Voices of Partition Refugees in ...

The Partition of British India into its successor dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947 triggered a two-way exodus across the newly formed ...

5. hum-The first refugee camp in Weat Bengal after partition

Bengal and. Punjab province was divided at the time of partition. East Bengal and West Punjab were included in Pakistan and West. Bengal and ...

Partition of India - Wikipedia

Among refugees who survived, it solidified the belief that safety lay among co-religionists. In the instance of Pakistan, it made palpable a hitherto only- ...

Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946 ...

Chapter three describes the refugee population's living conditions in West Bengal's bordering regions and refugee camps, including how the ...

Bengal Partition Refugees at Sealdah Railway Station, 1950–60

This article focuses on the Sealdah railway station in Calcutta, West Bengal, as a site of refugee 'settlement' in the aftermath of British India's partition.

Bengali settlers in the Andaman Islands: the performance of homeland

West Bengal became the smallest and most overcrowded state of an independent India: an estimated number of six million refugees entered between 1947 and 1971.