“When people remember, we see there’s a lot of commonality. They remember with fondness.”
The historical traces of how the Indian subcontinent’s Partition, left an indelible mark on its people and their multi-faceted culture is still very much present today.
Unearthing these particularities among people is an avenue of research that cannot be conducted in isolation. Everything is interlinked.
“There was this long journey of partition that I would say stretched all the way to the liberation war in 1971. Some of them migrated, obviously, because of psychological fear. Some of them thought there are better economic opportunities in West Bengal.”
For Episode Four, we invited Professor Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, an oral historian who’s research has largely focused on language and memory of Bengal’s people, to share his experiences and insights on the topic, as observed firsthand.
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