Debjani Sengupta teaches in the Department of English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her publications include an anthology of Partition short fiction titled Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two Bengals (2003, 2011) that she edited, and articles on Bangla science fiction, Bangla theatre and the Bengal Partition in anthologies and journals. She has contributed translations from Bangla to The Essential Tagore and The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature.

'This work is substantive not merely because of the political and literary elements Sengputa brings into her narrative but also because of the focus she places on the roles of such individuals as Ashoka Gupta, Renuka Ray and Renu Chakravartty in promoting communal harmony in Bengal.' Syed Badrul Ashan, Asian Affairs

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Calcutta riots in representations and testimonies; 2. Noakhali and after: history, memory and representations; 3. Colony fiction: displacement and belonging in post-Partition Bangla fiction; 4. From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi: refugee rehabilitation in Bangla Partition fictions; 5. The Partition's afterlife: nation and narration from the north-east of India and Bangladesh; 6. Uncanny landscapes and unstable borders: politics and identity in geo-narratives of the Partition (2005–10); Bibliography; Index.

Debjani Sengupta teaches in the Department of English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her publications include an anthology of Partition short fiction titled Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two Bengals (2003, 2011) that she edited, and articles on Bangla science fiction, Bangla theatre and the Bengal Partition in anthologies and journals. She has contributed translations from Bangla to The Essential Tagore and The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature.

'This work is substantive not merely because of the political and literary elements Sengputa brings into her narrative but also because of the focus she places on the roles of such individuals as Ashoka Gupta, Renuka Ray and Renu Chakravartty in promoting communal harmony in Bengal.' Syed Badrul Ashan, Asian Affairs

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Calcutta riots in representations and testimonies; 2. Noakhali and after: history, memory and representations; 3. Colony fiction: displacement and belonging in post-Partition Bangla fiction; 4. From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi: refugee rehabilitation in Bangla Partition fictions; 5. The Partition's afterlife: nation and narration from the north-east of India and Bangladesh; 6. Uncanny landscapes and unstable borders: politics and identity in geo-narratives of the Partition (2005–10); Bibliography; Index.