My People Uprooted, The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh

DETAILS : 

• Author : Tathagata Roy
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Synergy Books India
  
• Publication date : 25 November 2021
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
  
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 569 pages
  
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8194843057
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8194843054
  
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 950 g

ABOUT THE BOOK

My People, Uprooted: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh is a rigorous and controversial historical account by Tathagata Roy. The book chronicles the systemic displacement, migration, and persecution of the Hindu minority in East Bengal (later East Pakistan, and eventually Bangladesh) from the partition of India in 1947 through the following decades.

Unlike many mainstream histories of Partition that focus primarily on the Punjab border, Roy’s work focuses on the "Long Partition" of the East. He argues that the exodus was not a one-time event but a continuous, state-sponsored process of ethnic cleansing driven by communal ideologies and discriminatory laws like the Vested Property Act.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tathagata Roy is an Indian politician, engineer, and academic who served as the Governor of Tripura and Meghalaya. A former professor of Construction Engineering at Jadavpur University, his writing is characterized by a "data-heavy" approach, utilizing government records, refugee testimonies, and historical archives. Roy himself comes from a family with roots in East Bengal, and his perspective is deeply influenced by the desire to document a "forgotten" history of the Bengali Hindu community.