Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and audio-visual — both in West Bengal in India and in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Here is a list of recommended books, fiction and ...

Despite historically low female labour force participation rates, West Bengal in recent years has emerged as a major source ...

The communal identities it created eventually culminated in the end of British rule and the partition of India in 1947 The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly ...

When Anusree Roy was commissioned to write a large-scale play for Nightwood Theatre just over a decade ago, she turned to prayer for ideas. "I had this vision of a lineup of women," Roy says in an ...

The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly an administrative measure to provide relief to an overburdened state, it laid down the footprint of a longer partition ...