Gender

End of the Postcolonial State

Author(s): 
Faisal Devji
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2021/44/50-years-liberation-bangladesh/end-postcolonial-state.html

Much of the scholarship on Bangladesh’s founding places it within a narrative of repetition. It either repeats the partitions of 1905 or 1947 or the creation of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states. This paper argues instead for the novelty of Bangladesh’s creation against the postcolonial state, suggesting that it opened up a new history at the global level in which decolonisation was replaced by civil war as the founding narrative for new states.

Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema

Author(s): 
Kavita Daiya
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19472498.2011.605301

The 1947 Partition of India has recently re-emerged as a thematic concern of many South Asian films about nationalism in popular and parallel cinema. These films invoke the 1947 Partition in both productive and troubling ways: they connect it to the contemplation of the role of religion in the contemporary nation-state, and of the impact of religious ethnicity, terrorism and gender on the experience of citizenship in both India and Pakistan.

Citizenship and Social Belonging Across the Thar: Gender, Family and Caste in the Context of the 1971 War

Author(s): 
Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2022.2078082

In this article, I examine the 1971 war (better known as the war for the liberation of Bangladesh) from a western Indian perspective. I argue that this war between India and Pakistan—while it focused overtly on the independence of East Pakistan—had some significant consequences for the western border between Kutch (in Gujarat state) and Sindh (in Pakistan).

The 1947 Partition, War, and Internment

Kavita Daiya
Cambridge University Press
2021

Home and the nation: Women, citizenship and transnational migration in postcolonial literature

Kavita Daiya
Taylor and Francis
2008

New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature: Disrupting the Discourse

Sonora Jha
Alka Kurian
Routledge
2019

Partitions and their Afterlives

Radhika Mohanram
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
2019

Partition of Lives: Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia of East Bengali Refugee Women in West Bengal

Subhasri Ghosh
Café Dissensus
2017

Population Movements in West Bengal: A Case Study of Nadia District, 1947-1951

Subhasri Ghosh
SAGE
2014

En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

Sangeeta Ray
Duke University Press
2000

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