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Greetings from the Department of History, LSR!

On 10 March, 2021, the Department of History conducted an Online Talk on "Refugee Women in Post-Partition Bengal : Different Contexts and Varied Images, 1947-71". The Speaker for the session was Dr. Pallavi Chakravarty, who specializes in the same. The talk focused on the various significant aspects of the refugee movement and influx during the Bengal partition of 1947, and after, including stories of violence, martyrdom and survival, and ideas of victimization and rehabilitation. The speaker gave deep insights into the stories and situation of refugee women at the time, while drawing links among their experiences as mothers, daughters, and wives.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER-

Dr.Pallavi Chakravarty is an Assistant Professor of History in the School of Liberal Studies in Ambedkar University Delhi, She has specialized in Modern Indian History and her doctoral thesis looked at the rehabilitation of refugees coming into post Partition India from West and East Pakistan respectively, from a comparative perspective through which she was able to demonstrate the faultlines in the rehabilitation policy of the Government of India with respect to the latter category. Her areas of interest include partition studies, forced migration studies and gender studies. Her doctoral thesis is under publication with Primus Books, Rehabilitating the Refugee: An East-West Story. She has presented papers on themes involving partition, refugees, gender and conflict, and the archives in national and international conferences, some of these have been published in peer reviewed volumes and journals.