Day 50 of '75 Days of Partition' - Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. He will discuss the pre- and post-Partition situation in Eastern India, as well as the longer term impacts on the far eastern areas bordering Burma.
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