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999 _c55798
_d55798
020 _a9780141004228
082 _a325.0954
_bHAZ
100 _aHazarika, Sanjoy
_966069
245 _aRites of passage : border crossings, imagined homelands, India's East and Bangladesh
260 _aNew Delhi
_bPenguin Books
_c2000
300 _axviii,347p.
505 _aCONTENTS 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
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890 _aIndia
891 _aGratis
942 _2ddc