Frontline, February 28, 2009
[Book review:]
[The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-67 by Joya Chatterji (Cambridge University Press, 342pp. ]
Bengal’s sorrow
In Bengal, Partition frustrated the plans and purposes of the very groups that had demanded it.
One can count on Dr Asok Mitra to say things that very few dare to say and most do not even notice or perceive. Curzon’s partition of Bengal in 1905 is one of the legends of the freedom movement. Legends and myths arouse protective (...)