Reconstructing the Bengal Partition: The psyche under a different violence

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Reconstructing the Bengal Partition: The psyche under a different violence

By: Jayanti Basu

Jayanti Basu’s book is a product of the dialogue between two minds’––the interviewee and herself. Basu says, ‘My focus is on the ‘subjective history’––I wanted top peep into the inner world that they possessed. It was difficult and risky. And it was fascinating . . . [but] I sailed into their subjective space with my own subjectivity. Indeed, the target persons of her study were those who did not undergo the bloody brutalities of the partition violence, but were forced by the circumstances of partition to migrate to India.
Compared to the partition of Punjab, the violence had been less . . . did it mean that the pain was less? During the interviews, it has occurred to me that this is a different kind of trauma––I called it ‘soft violence’. A large portion of this book would be devoted to unfurling the psychological processes involved in soft violence.

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ISBN Code: 978-81 906760-9-0, pb, 249 pp

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