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especially how people identify themselves individually and collectively when removed from their place of origin. She spent much of her time travelling to remote areas, meeting key sources (within and outside the country), and conducting first-hand primary research using her own limited resources. She would devote hours on translation, roping in friends and well-wishers to help. She taught herself to read and write
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Papiya Ghosh was murdered on the night of 2/3 December 2006, along with her elderly maid, Malti Devi. The post-mortem report listed 34 stab wounds inflicted on her, including to the eyes, throat and stomach. Of the six men accused on the murder, four have been arrested, tried and convicted and two of
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In Patna, Papiya taught first at Patna Women's
College and then at the history department at Patna University. A highly regarded teacher, she took great personal pains to ensure that the content and quality of instruction her students received was at par with the best universities in the country.
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Her research subjects related, inter-alia, to the impact of
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for two years. In 1979, she decided to move back to Patna. This was in part to support her mother, who was by then living on her own, but also because she wanted to live and work in the midst of the land, people and society which formed the main focus of her academic research.
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script. She immersed herself in local traditions (many obscure, some dying out) and was also a keen student of diasporic sub-continental populations, both contemporary (such as the
Bangladeshi population in London) and historical (such as in Mauritius and the West Indies).
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Professional recognition was hard to come by, given the situation in Patna and its remoteness from the more high-profile academic centres of India. Nevertheless, she was awarded the prestigious
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (twice), as well as fellowships from the
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mysticism, which she saw as a unique amalgam of influences truly representative the assimilative culture of the Indian sub-continent. She also had a keen interest in modern literature, especially writings by and about Indian and
Pakistani women.
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for two years. In 1979, she moved back to Patna, where she taught at her alma mater, Patna Women's
College (Patna University), until 1991. She was subsequently promoted and moved to the Department of History, Patna University.
149:) and was also elected Premier of the Students' Union. Papiya was an avid debater, dramatist and writer from an early age, and, together with her sister Tuktuk, became something of a household name as a regular contributor to
382:. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen released a commemorative volume in Papiya Ghosh's memory – Resurrection of the State, A Saga of Bihar – on 4 February 2013 in Patna. The volume is edited by Sunita Lall and Shaibal Gupta.
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This was especially challenging given the general decline of standards at Patna
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where she completed her MPhil and PhD, studying the pre-independence civil disobedience movement in Bihar (1930–34). After her PhD, she taught history at
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the named accused, who were absconding, have since been arrested in August 2012 by Bihar Police. However, the trial in their case has yet to commence.
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Community and Nation: Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India
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Department of History, Patna University, for the Topper in MA History
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Partition and the South Asian diaspora: Extending the Subcontinent
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Hindu College, Delhi University, for the Topper in MA History
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Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies,
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378:Details of other publications are available at
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303:Muhajirs and the Nation: Bihar in the 1940s
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