'Burmese Women and Bengali Men's Dilemma: A Colonial Story of Love, Hate, and More'
Parthasarathi Bhaumik, Jadavpur University
When the Bengali men emigrated to colonised Burma (1886-1948) as a part of a colonial policy, they encountered Burmese women, and faced an immediate challenge to accommodate them in the familiar Bengali discourses of womanhood. The lecture would trace the passionate and baffling responses of the Bengali men to the Burmese women on the backdrop of colonial realities.