Thakurnagar as a Political Location: Place Making Practices of Matua Refugees in West Bengal

dc.contributor.author	Sinharay, Praskanva
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-05T18:41:43Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-05T18:41:43Z
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	This paper examines the making and transformation of Thakurnagar as a place that has evolved as the epicentre of Dalit refugee activism in contemporary West Bengal. Based on literary and ethnographic evidence, the paper looks at the place making practices of Namasudra refugees in and around Thakurnagar to show why and how did this place develop as a sacred, civic, and political location, and in turn, shape their community and identity in the post-Partition decades. In doing so, the paper reflects on the relationship between caste, refugeehood, and place making in postcolonial India.
dc.identifier.citation	Sinharay, P. (2023). Thakurnagar as a Political Location: Place Making Practices of Matua Refugees in West Bengal. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 61 & 62, 55-73. http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rw%20files/RW61_62/RW61_62.pdf
dc.identifier.issn	2347-405X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42551
dc.publisher	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
dc.subject	Matua
dc.subject	Dalit
dc.subject	Refugees
dc.subject	Place-making
dc.subject	Bengal
dc.title	Thakurnagar as a Political Location: Place Making Practices of Matua Refugees in West Bengal
dc.type	Article

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