| Title | Island Palimpsest |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Understanding Neil Island’s Transition through Settlers’ Oral Recollections |
| Contributor | Raka Banerjee (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/63831593227779.ch10 |
| Landing page | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93616 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2024-03-15 |
| Page range | pp. 237–256 |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 2 illustrations |
Raka Banerjee is a Junior Fellow at the Prime Ministers Museum & Library (formerly Nehru Memorial Museum & Library), New Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis ‘Adrift in the Bay, at Home in the Island: Post-Partition “Settler Women” in Neil Island, Bay of Bengal’, has been longlisted for the ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book Prize 2023 under the ‘Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences’ category. She has received the Journal of International Women’s Studies Fellowship; Asian Graduate Student Fellowship, National University of Singapore; Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarship for Doctoral Studies; and Ministry of Culture Junior Fellowship.