The 1947 Bengal Partition: Parallelling Grassroots Memories With Historiography? – OpEd

This narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The middle of the 1940s, as I recall, epitomized the jaded sunset of the one-time Majestic British Raj in India. Growing out of the British...