Review of Chakravartty’s Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal | Deepti Priya Mehrotra

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Coming Out of Partition:
Refugee Women of Bengal

by Gargi Chakravartty

Tulika Books
2025
196 pages

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Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

Gargi Chakravartty chronicles the experiences of refugee women in West Bengal, post-Partition, describing travails, but even more the courage and resourcefulness with which they rebuilt lives, homes and identities. This is a significant contribution, not least because refugee women