http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4182 2026-03-14T00:28:15Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4587 Title: Contributors 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4586 Title: A Moment of Possibility: The 1940s in Lahore Authors: Chakravarti, Uma Abstract: In the year 1998, I began a somewhat unusual cycle of going from Delhi to Lahore every February for a few weeks each year to teach women’s studies to South Asian students. A special course had been designed and executed by a few ‘mad’ feminists; these women were trying to create a new South Asian reality, which countered the hyper nationalisms of the South Asian nation-states, by bringing students together across borders 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4585 Title: Telling Stories/Reading the Nation: News and the Newspapers in the Forties Authors: Gupta, Nilanjana Abstract: The turbulent decade of the forties was arguably even more so in Bengal and Calcutta which suffered the horrific famine in the early years of the decade followed by one of the worst riots between Hindus and Muslims in 1946 known as the Great Calcutta Killings. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4584 Title: Remembering the Dvc Dream: Of Nationhood and Development Visions Authors: Datta, Sayantoni Abstract: In July 1943, when the Second World War was in full swing, Calcutta was the headquarters of the supply base for the Southeast Asian command of the allied nations. The Damodar Valley had experienced continuous rains for four days and the accumulated run–off caused a breach in the northern embankment around Amitupur village in Burdwan district. The escaping water shot forward as a jet, undermining the two embankments bordering the Eden canal on the way, drilled through the Grand Trunk Road and rammed against the Eastern Railway lines, melting the earthen embankments on which the railway tracks stood. The fury of the floods abated shortly afterwards, but the water that escaped the river stagnated over fields and surrounded the dwellings; sand spread over cultivated fields and the flood water dug into the mud plinths of walls leading to the collapse of houses.’ Along with these damages there was also breakdown of all communication. Thus the hardship to which the people were exposed provided a fresh momentum for agitation at a time when the people of India were in the midst of a campaign for freedom from the British yoke 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z