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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi :
SAGE Publications,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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