Prologue -- Historical background of Burma-Bengal cultural relations -- Describing Burma Muluk: Burma in Bangla literary discourses (1886-1937) -- Distrust and riots (1937-1948) -- World War II and Burma: heroism, violence and exodus (1938-48) -- Epilogue. "Parthasarathi Bhaumi…
Bengalis in Burma looks at Bengali migrations and settlements in Burma from 1886 until the end of the British rule in Burma in 1948. As a result of British colonial policies, thousands of Bengalis from various classes and places in Bengal migrated to Burma and established Bengal…
"Parthasarathi Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He co-edited Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886-1948). He worked with the British Library, UK as a Chevenin…
"Parthasarathi Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He co-edited Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886-1948). He worked with the British Library, UK as a Chevenin…