Revisting The 1947 Partition: The Grassroots Heartbeats In The Twilight Of Colonial Bengal? – OpEd

A band of chroniclers periodically challenge who got what and who did what immediately before and after the 1947 division of Bengal and the Punjab. Nonetheless, the Partition recounts—top-down historiographies as they are— scarcely focus on the social transition among the Muslims in what was the rural eastern Bengal that...