Memories of Arrival : a Voice from the Margins.

Describes the social history of a majority of Indians, the subalterns, who move to urban India for survival.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Biswas, Adhir
Other Authors:	Ramaswamy, V.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2021.
Subjects:	Biswas, Adhir. Internal migrants > India. Rural-urban migration > India. Internal migrants Rural-urban migration India
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
In the Author's Words
Introduction
A Note by the Translator
A Note on Kinship Terms
A Note on the Bengali Calendar
Book 1 Setting Foot on Allah's Land
Preface
1 Setting Foot on Allah's Land
2 What Did Baba Write?
3 The Old School: The Red Colour Book
4 It Was to Take Me That the Train Arrived
5 The First Lie
6 Bed Number Twenty-Eight
7 The Silver Screen of Madhumati
8 Rani not Kuti
9 Dewdrops
10 Fortune Smiled at Dawn
11 Barefoot, Alta on Feet
12 The World of Weeds
13 Dadu Was Looking for a Second-Time Groom
14 The Old Cross Mark
15 Small Pica, a Rupee and a Half
16 The Make-Believe Shop
17 The Wheel of the Returning Chariot
18 Rubia, Chikan and Puffed Sleeves
19 Still Weeping
20 Had I Been Able to Inspire with Dreams?
Book 2 A Refugee Almanac
Preface
21 Are You the One Who ...?
22 An Ear of Paddy and a Blade of Grass
23 Tenant Wanted: A Small Role
24 How Much Would Saira Have Asked For?
25 The Maidan on 23 January
26 Strangers
27 Padabali Kirtan
28 A Small-Size Letter, Arun Sanyal
29 Was the Minister Himself Taking the Bribe?
30 Fragrant Flower Incense
31 Do You Want to Hear How I Got the Money?
32 The East Bengal Ground, Thangaraj at the Goal
33 Is It All from College?
34 Rupu's Dot
Book 3 Let's Go to India!
Preface
35 I live in the City of Uttam-Suchitra
36 Once the Chain Began Landing-Run Man, Run!
37 Days of Looking for Work
38 Calcutta's Far Away
39 Wasn't There a Sari That Belonged to Ma?
40 Inquilab Zindabad!
41 I Left the Country after Being Promoted to Class Six
42 Barbodhu and Miss Shefali
43 Dada, Two on the Side
44 Sackcloth Cinema, Nineteen Paise
45 Santoshda Didn't Return to the Village
46 I Don't Want to Weep like Dada
47 Independence Day, Free Cinema
48 A Wretched Face
49 Calcutta 71
Book 4 A Flavour of the Maidan
Preface
50 Rivers and Streams, Hilsa Fish and Village
51 The Maidan for a Hundred-Thousand
52 This River, That Bank
53 Had the Corpse Decomposed?
54 There's No One Nearby Now
55 The Late Subedar
56 Since When, Kid?
57 Why Had He Held Me So Tight?
58 Won't You Collect the Body?
59 We're going through the Maidan Now
60 Tenants of Fort William
61 Could One Climb Up the Wall of Victoria Memorial?
62 Why So Many Questions?
63 The Red Light Lane
64 Badal Sarkar
About the Author and the Translator

Memories of Arrival : a Voice from the Margins.

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