Blood Island: An Oral History Of The Marichjhapi Massacre | Deep Halder |
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The Partition in 1947 split the large eastern province of Bengal into two halves, along religious lines. One half became West Bengal, a Hindu-majority province in the new independent state of India. The other half became East Pakistan, the Muslim-majority eastern half of Pakistan, and later the independent country of Bangladesh.
Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre is the story of our forgotten history. It is the story of the stateless clashing with the state. And the devastation thereafter. It may remind the listener of the Jallianwala Bagh killings. Except that this one, despite taking place in independent India, was never investigated. Not even shoddily. No one, therefore, knows how many people died in those 72 hours of savagery, organised and orchestrated by the state government of the day.
Though the official figure says less than 10 people died, locals and survivors put the number as high as 10,000. And those who escaped the bullets were forced to leave for what was “more like a concentration camp or a prison”, as Amitava Ghosh writes in The Hungry Tide. Thousands more perished in transit and at these camps.
Maybe they kept quiet because the massacre was the handiwork of the “progressive” Left Front government in West Bengal. Or, was it because the victims belonged to the lower castes which had migrated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) soon after Partition?
About the Speaker: -
Deep Halder has been a journalist for nearly two decades, writing on issues of development at the intersection of religion, caste and politics. Currently he is Executive Editor with the India Today Group. He received the Best Journalist (Editor) Award at the 8th Newsmakers’ Achievers Awards 2017 by Afternoon Voice in Mumbai. Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre is his first book.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to the Marichjhapi Massacre
02:15 - Political hypocrisy and historical erasure
05:50 - Refugee journey from East Pakistan to Dandakaranya
09:07 - How refugees transformed Marichjhapi Island
10:15 - The economic blockade and court intervention
11:23 - Media suppression during the massacre
12:35 - Tracking down survivors after 40 years
17:34 - Personal connection to the massacre
25:42 - Left politics and caste discrimination
29:50 - Government records and documentation
31:56 - The forgotten plight of Bengali refugees
37:30 - Shame for the Bengali community
41:40 - Beyond left-right politics: a human tragedy
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