“Let’s Return to Our Own Home”: Muslim Return Migrations in Post-Partition West Bengal 1947–64
| dc.contributor.author | KHAN, NISHARUDDIN | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-05T18:39:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-05T18:39:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-12 | |
| dc.description | This article is reproduced here with permission from the author and may be found online at http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rw%20files/RW61_62/RW61_62.pdf. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Following Partition, a significant number of Muslims left West Bengal for East Pakistan for various reasons including communal riots, economic hardship, patriotic ideals etc. However, often, their initial decision to migrate changed and many Muslim refugees returned to West Bengal after a while. This paper focuses on the return migration of Muslims from East Pakistan to West Bengal in the aftermath of Partition and tries to understand the logic of the return migration: Why did they return? How did the West Bengal government and the Indian government perceive these returnees? How were their lives after returning? The story of this return migration to their “homes” is not only preserved in the government communication in the archives but also has been vividly detailed in the then newspaper reports and has remained as memories etched in the lived experiences of the returnees. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Khan, N. (2023). “Let’s Return to Our Own Home”: Muslim Return Migrations in Post-Partition West Bengal 1947–64. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 61 & 62, 88-109. http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rw%20files/RW61_62/RW61_62.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2347-405X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42550 | |
| dc.publisher | Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | |
| dc.subject | Muslim | |
| dc.subject | Refugees | |
| dc.subject | Return migrations | |
| dc.subject | Partition | |
| dc.subject | West Bengal | |
| dc.title | “Let’s Return to Our Own Home”: Muslim Return Migrations in Post-Partition West Bengal 1947–64 | |
| dc.type | Article |