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Chapter 10 - Partition

from Part II - Colonial Encounters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2021

Willem van Schendel
Willem van Schendel
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In 1947 British rule came to an end and Bengal was split into an eastern half that became East Pakistan and a western part that fell to India. Delineation of the new border, and demarcating it, would turn out to be a long-drawn-out process. One of the unintended consequences of Partition was mass migration across the new borders.

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decolonisationpartitionPakistanborderstate formationEast BengalEast Pakistanenclavemigration
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A History of Bangladesh , pp. 112 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Partition
  • Willem van Schendel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: A History of Bangladesh
  • Online publication: 17 June 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108684644.012
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  • Willem van Schendel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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  • Partition
  • Willem van Schendel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: A History of Bangladesh
  • Online publication: 17 June 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108684644.012
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