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The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967

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Joya Chatterji

Important for understanding post-partition West Bengal, refugees, citizenship, borders, and the long-term impact of partition.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

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1947

Partition and Eastern Bengal

In 1947, British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and Bengal itself was split into West Bengal and East Bengal. The chapter is not only about constitutional division: the delayed Radcliffe boundary, minority insecurity, refugee movement, and administrative rupture reshaped everyday life and set the stage for later struggles over language, autonomy, and state legitimacy in East Bengal.