REVISITING THE LIFE STRUGGLE OF MARGINAL HINDU BENGALI REFUGEES IN WEST BENGAL IN POST-INDEPENDENT INDIA (original) (raw)

It was the most painful chapter in the life of Bengalis and Sikhs during the partition. Most researchers agree that religion was the main catalyst for the partition. Partition divided Greater India into two new countries, India and Pakistan, based on religious identity. Behind the partition, there were sorrows, pains, feelings, memories, and many untold stories. Particularly, marginal Bengali Hindus and Sikhs were more adversely affected by the Partition than upper-caste Hindus. The question is that while the Sikhs got the opportunity of property exchange and citizenship, the Bengalis did not. Despite all these challenges the Bangladeshi Bengali marginalized lower caste Hindu Refugees are still living in Bengal,