Of roots and rootlessness: music, partition and Ghatak
At a time when the ‘commercial’ Bengali film directors were busy caricaturing the language and the mannerisms of the East-Bengal refugees, specifically in Calcutta, using them as nothing but mere butts of ridicule, Ritwik Ghatak’s films portrayed these ‘refugees’, who formed the lower middle class o...
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Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh Library
2014-05-01
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Series: | The South Asianist |
Online Access: | http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/705 |