A group of beleaguered refugees arrive on an uninhabited island in the Sundarbans to create a new life for themselves, only to have their dreams crushed by government sponsored caste violence. Listen to our latest episode to learn about a massacre, almost worse than the anti-muslim pogrom in Gujrat (2002) or the anti-sikh genocide (1984), but very little talked about. 

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Sources:

1. Mallick, Ross. "Refugee Resettlement in Forest Reserves: West Bengal Policy Reversal and the Marichjhapi Massacre." The Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (1999): 104-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2658391

2. Annu Jalais. "Dwelling on Morichjhanpi: When Tigers Became 'Citizens', Refugees 'Tiger-Food'." Economic and Political Weekly 40, no. 17 (2005): 1757-762. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4416535

3. https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/09/hindu-casteism-led-to-the-creation-of-east-pakistan/

4. https://thewire.in/history/partition-dalits-bengal

5. https://kolkata-partition-museum.org/chronicling-resettlement/#h

6. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/forests/tribal-communities-suffer-when-evicted-in-the-name-of-conservation-64376

7. http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/ace-journalist-sukharanjan-sengupta-passes-away-274506

8. https://theprint.in/opinion/40-yrs-ago-the-left-mercilessly-massacred-dalit-bengalis-now-its-back-to-haunt-them/235648/

DOCUMENTARY on MARICHJHAPI: https://canvaspix.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/marichjhanpi/