TY - GEN AU - Hazarika, Sanjoy TI - Rites of passage : border crossings, imagined homelands, India's East and Bangladesh SN - 9780141004228 U1 - 325.0954 PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - N1 - CONTENTS Foreword ix Acknowledgements xii Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Mahesh : Encounters of the First Kind 9 Chapter Three Crossing Thresholds : Land and People 16 Chapter Four The Roads to Nellie 25 Chapter Five 'Where Are the Bodies?' 49 Chapter Six The Roads Away from Nellie 54 Chapter Seven A Place Called Home 75 Chapter Eight An inner World : Chars, Islanders and Diwanis 100 Chapter Nine Where is Suleman? 122 Chapter Ten Memory is a Fickle Companion 137 Chapter Eleven Kurigram and Keramat 151 Chapter Twelve The Story of Keramat Bhai 179 Chapter Thirteen Bangladesh : Standing Room Only 204 Chapter Fourteen Seeking PArtnership, Renouncing Confrontation 239 Appendices 269 Bibliography 334 Index 341 ER -