23/12/2025
DEML, IUB ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง BRAC University Journal
The Department of English and Modern Languages, IUB, is pleased to share a recent scholarly contribution in the BRAC University Journal by Professor ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง, PhD, Independent University, Bangladesh.
Dr. Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman has authored a research article titled โ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ: ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ.โ
The study provides a nuanced examination of memory, identity, and belonging through the oral testimonies of Partition survivors who migrated from West Bengal to present-day Bangladesh.
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This paper examines the complex negotiation of displaced identities as revealed through the memoirs and oral testimonies of four Partition survivors who migrated from various regions of West Bengal, India, and resettled in the Khulna division of erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) between 1946 and the late 1960s. The testimonials were collected through on-site interviews conducted in Jhenidah, Kushtia, Meherpur, and Chuadanga during 2017โ2018 as part of the collaborative research project โMapping Partition Memory, Amnesia and Literature in Middle and Southern Bengal: An Indo-Bangladesh Perspective.โ
Drawing on memory studies and refugee narratives, the article demonstrates that displacement is not confined to the historical moment of migration but continues to reverberate through everyday life, kinship relations, language, and affect. Memory emerges not as a passive archive but as an active process that reconstructs identity, mediates trauma, and negotiates belonging. The study identifies three key findings: displacement as an embodied and sensory experience; memory as shaped by political and historical pressures; and belonging as a gradual, negotiated process embedded within community and social integration. The paper argues that the Partition of Bengal remains an ongoing lived reality that continues to shape the formation of home and identity for Muslim refugees in post-Partition Bangladesh.
๐๐ก๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง, A. (2025). Reflecting displaced identities: Testimonials of the Partition survivors from West Bengal.
๐ Read the article: https://doi.org/10.64501/2k67a423
