Experiences of Refugee Women After Partition (1947-1962): A Case Study of the Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal
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2020-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Lama, Sudash
Acharya, Dipsikha
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University of North Bengal
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Pal, A. (2020). Experiences of Refugee Women After Partition (1947-1962): A Case Study of the Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 13, 134–145. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4230
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Pal, Agnita
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Abstract
Partition and migration can be considered as a mirroring face of Indian
independence. A huge number of refugees entered in India after partition, and among them
a considerable number were women. This particular gender unfortunately bore the most
lasting scars of partition, both physical and mental, as refugees on one hand and for being
women on the other. Adjustment in the new land was very difficult, rather challenging for
them. Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal is in fact flooded with the stories of sufferings of
those women thereby containing a significant history frozen in the memories of those
surviving eyewitnesses. This paper is an attempt to seek attention to those unknown parts
of human history.
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13
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2229-4880
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134 - 145