sylhet

The historic struggle for housing by Bengali migrants in London

Shabna Begum’s ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields’ offers a searing history of Bengali squatters in 1970s East London, and a chilling reminder of how migrants continue to be treated by a hostile British state

| Aug 25, 2023

Managing floods in Bangladesh

Why cooperation across borders is vital for better flood management.

| Aug 19, 2022

Memories of a land divided

A historian reflects on the challenges of reconstructing the lesser-known history of the Sylhet Partition many decades after the event.

| Mar 18, 2013

Recovering Sylhet

The loss and recovery of the history of Sylhet, and a close look at Partition historiography in contemporary India.

| Nov 22, 2012

Meghalaya-Sylhet: A border without history or logic

A border without history or logic

| Nov 01, 2005

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