Partition and South Asia's diaspora?

13 MAR -

By Dr Joya Chatterji who was educated at the Universities of Delhi and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is now a Fellow and University Lecturer in History. Her first book published in 1994, Bengal divided, Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 was the first work which drew attention to the role of Hindu communalism in 1947. It was translated into Bangla by University of Dhaka press in 2003. Last year, her second monograph on the consequences of the partition, The spoils of partition, was published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Chatterji has written widely on communalism, borders, refugees, migration and identity-formation, and is presently leading a large AHRC project on the Bengali diaspora in the delta and the UK.