Contents: Women as the ‘displaced’: The context of South Asia (Issue 44)
Guest-Editorial
Women as the “Displaced” in South Asia
Suranjana Choudhury and Nabanita Sengupta
Partition, 1947: Unsettled lives, unwritten chaos…
Doomed by Circumstances
Amarinder Gill
Muted Voices and Gendered Memories: Some notes of violent uprooting from partitioned Assam
Binayak Dutta
Restored, or doubly displaced?: Women and the Recovery Commission in India’s Partition Narratives
Debasri Basu
A Tale of Being Female in a Time of Conflict: Displaced in One’s Native Land
Paromita Sengupta
Chhor aaye hum who galiyaan: Representations of women displaced by Partition in popular cinema
Sudeshna Chakravorty
Carrying on an ‘Imaginary Rooting’ in the Journeys of ‘Uprooted-ness’: Refugee Women and Bengal
Anindita Ghoshal
“Her Thighs Still Smell of Milk”: Partition and Poetry in Northeast India
Rajashree Bargohain and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
My Grandmother’s Tales of the Partition, 1947
Sashi Teibor Laloo
Diasporic voices: Voices from beyond the homeland
“[A]ll because I was an Afghan woman”: Reading the Life Story of Zarghuna Kargar in Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan
Dolikajyoti Sharma
A female perspective on exile in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004)
Joanna Antoniak
Unfolding Dreams in a State of Displacement
Rima Bhattacharya
A journey across cities: A re-encounter with the women of ‘Dhobi Ghat’
Saumya B Verma
Dis-placing the Heteropatriarchal Gaze: The Female Body, Love, and Desire in Mohanraj’s ‘Bodies in Motion’
Kaustav Bakshi
Displacement induced by social institutions
‘Chidiyon da chamba’: Leaving Home and Making Home: A Study of Marital Displacement
Debamitra Kar
The ‘Burned Star’: Life Sketches of Rosie, the First Malayalam Movie Actress (1903-1928) Vineeth Mathoor
Conflicts and calamities: Disorders of displacement
Women in Conflict: Multiple Marginalities through Displacement
Subhajit Sengupta
Displacement as empowerment
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
Mahuya Paul
Defining my life and art through displacement
Lapdiang Syiem
Photo: Hindustan Times
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