Written by Dipti Nagpaul |Updated: April 23, 2019 5:53:47 am
Rimple Mehta’s new book focusses on Bangladeshi women prisoners in India
The book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated backgrounds, who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border, find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act 1946.
In the ongoing election season, the subject of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is one that is highly politicised. Viewed as “infiltrators”, “votebank” and “miscreants”, they have found themselves as a subject of contention, which has, over decades, triggered policy debates, unrest and, at times, even violence.
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