Introduction: Echoes of a Cry -- Chronicler of Troubled Times -- A Familiar Face -- Cinematic Theatricality.

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The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three sign

Jisha Menon's book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan.