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National Identities· 2026Q1

The Bengali migrant and the (un)happy object: a study of select Bengali texts from Assam

Udita Banerjee, Sharmita Lahiri

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Bengali literary texts from Assam show how culturally significant and mundane objects embody migrant melancholia and displacement, gaining agency in shaping alienated migrant subjectivities.

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