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South Asian Review Volume 45, 2024 - Issue 1-2: The Partition of India: 75 Years and Beyond. Guest Editors: Nalini Iyer and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam

Ragini ChakrabortyDepartment of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 144-157 | Received 31 Jan 2023, Accepted 18 Sep 2023, Published online: 10 Oct 2023

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