Wy stevens Ment Wok Tw wo salle NE Ge bpp ge Nareviby teervert Cote - od by tre rearie cl the Coleen yy / ide ins we otemrnie ped by the mae | eins, Nile Sab ax given this poem the tle Hababititay, Nous fired the ‘ Crehabilitation of (he refiy try evr dees Gate Wott c ocuss Shankha als “Rehabilitation” ag hankha Ghosh R a Q 7 Critically disca men of Partition Literatare Ans. Chittipriyn Chor on Hh Pebrunry, 192 at India during, the fartitin , rely known as Shankha Ghosh, as page Cr his now Bangladesh He carne : He was fifteen years old Con. A bony 4 feral) the dark days during the Partition very well as he ne dena Ie i hildhood h place and he recorded those days in veriber his sweet child hone tot J vellas Sokalbelar he Morning Light) and Supurihoner Say, two al his novellas. So a (The Hows of Areca Nut Trees) So, Shankha Ghosh expesses his anger agains the whimeical and inbu: on of the prtition that produces a new race oF species of human beings on both sides of the border— The Refugees, His poet “Mahabilitation” deals with the gradual decline of the situation around the natives in Bast Bengal who , during the partition’ suddenly foun them. selves homeless and then they headed towards India, reached Sealdah statior the city in search of rehabilitation. Jovards the end of 1987, West Bengal had a refugee population of 2.46 lakh who had migrated from East Pakistan as a result of Partition. In 1948 3 Jittle less than 6 lakh Bengali Hindus left East Bengal for West Bengal and by the end of April, 1944, their number was nineteen lakh and fifty thousand. O¢ this displaced population, rine lakhs and seventy thousand people had come to Caleutta and its neighbourhood, while other districts in West Bengal had : total of oi and a half lakh of refugee population. and spread actos Thus, much to the ansiety of the city authorities, Calcutta was emerging as the most preferred destination for the refugees from East Bengal. The retugee “erlsis” of Calcutta and West Henyal further aggravated in 1950, when as 2 result of a widespread communal Not, tare than 11H lakh refugees entered the Province connections and/or education to be economically independent With the riots of 1950, however, the mux Jal profile of the migrants becat more heterogeneous, The poor, often from low cante backgrounds. were 0 Po parka a they evan {0 Mave GUL of Laat Pakistan, Many ot thes with not enough Means is 2 th He relallves and friends i are “r OF settling down on their own, the new retugers © Plattorms at fealdal “Sealdah é arta aan ot Mare Feported the city newapaper® Ne 1% reli MMM) Feliiees; by June 22, their number - fi Hees Were FON On the Mattorny or aly 228 Wet weeb of August they Humbe Hs Platfornn on With this SMatinticn in E omeaewn i es nt cal dislocation of the 4 cal 1, tne a pray Wolipical az well as 4 ne + Peaker ot the poem of “Wehabilttatian® and ty baw “rommed 900, 19)