“To Give Voice to the Voiceless”: An Interview with Tanvir Mokammel

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 The issue discussed here is in context of developing a national register to identify bona fide citizens of India in the region of Assam. In Assam, the first National Register of Citizens (NRC) was conducted in 1951. The publication of the second NRC in 2019 stripped 1.9 million individuals off their citizenship [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/19-lakh-left-out-final-assam-nrc-elicits-anger-sense-of-betrayal/articleshow/70930061.cms] accessed 23 February 2020. For a detailed commentary on citizenship issue in Assam, see Baruah, Sanjib. 2015. “Partition and the Politics of Citizenship in Assam.” In Partition: The Long Shadow, 78–101. New Delhi: Viking-Penguin.2 For a comprehensive discussion on the 1947 Partition and caste, see Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. 2022. Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946–1961. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.3 To derive an understanding of the condition of women during 1947, See Butalia, Urvashi. 1998. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. New Delhi: Penguin Books; Chakraborty, Poulomi. 2018. The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender and the Political. New Delhi: Penguin Books.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSumallya MukhopadhyaySumallya Mukhopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, School of Media Studies and Humanities, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Delhi-NCR, India. His area of interest, among other things, includes narratives related to the 1947 Partition. He has been awarded the TATA Trusts – Partition Archive Research Grant (2021) and South Asia Speaks Fellowship (2022). In 2023, he has received the International Oral History Association Scholarship.