Blood Island

Blood Island  (English, Paperback, Halder Deep)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
    • Genre: History
    • ISBN: 9789353025878, 9353025877
    • Pages: 192
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    'When the house of history is on fire, journalists are often the first-responders, pulling victims away from the flames. Deep Halder is one of them.' - Amitava KumarIn 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government. Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of diseases, malnutrition resulting from an economic blockade, as well as from violence unleashed by the police on the orders of the government. Some of the refugees who survived Marichjhapi say the number of those who lost their lives could be as high as 10,000, while the-then government officials maintain that there were less than ten victims.How does an entire island population disappear? How does one unearth the truth and the details of one of the worst atrocities of post-Independent India? Journalist Deep Halder reconstructs the buried history of the 1979 massacres through his interviews with survivors, erstwhile reporters, government officials and activists with a rare combination of courage, conscientiousness and empathy.
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    • Deep Halder has been a journalist for more than twenty years, writing on issues of development at the intersection of religion, caste and politics. He is the author of Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre (2019) and Bengal 2021: An Election Diary (2021).
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    Very Good

    The book actually leaves you numb and you're left trying to comprehend why no one talks about those Hindu refugees who migrated to India from Bangladesh in 70s. Just because they stopped depending on the COMMUNIST government of WB of the time and refused to be a mere political tool in the power game, they were raped,butchered,shot and poisoned. Read the book to find out how deceitful the champions of a classless can be. Read the book to know how humanity was murdered in Marichjappi and why no...
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    Very Good

    A striking description of the plight of the distressed and miserable refugees, their unbelievable struggle to survive , the black record of governments' retaliation....... truly, an oral history becoming alive through the letters
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    Great product

    Great!!! revealing!!!
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    Super!

    Must read,
    It shows the visuals how political parties treat people after their interests are over with them.
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    Very bad quality binding and printing. Flipcart is a cheater..
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    Perfect product!

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    Delightful

    True story of oppression on humanity
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