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Research Articles

Negotiating caste-subaltern imaginations of the 1943 Bengal famine: methodological underpinnings of a creative-collaborative practice

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Pages 367-384 | Received 12 Jan 2022, Accepted 21 Feb 2023, Published online: 08 Mar 2023

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