• Firdosi Akhtara Basid
• KM Sudha

The 1947 Great Divide is the most significant signpost in the evolution of South Asia as a socio-political unit. After having drawn the boundaries of two independent states, India and Pakistan, the British had finally withdrawn. If there was cause to rejoice at the end of Colonialism, the celebrations were undoubtedly marred by a tragic partition along religious lines. The Partition of 1947 brought un-expectable horrors to the life of the people of the tribal communities on the border areas of North East India and East Pakistan, irrespective of community, creed, caste, tribes, geography and identity. To the Garo people (a tribal community belong to North East India), the partition of the Indian subcontinent was a tragic event. It was the outsiders who sliced the international border through the area of traditional Garo settlement, leaving the majority of the Garos North of the Borders in the Garo Hills in India, but also isolating a substantial minority in East Pakistan. The border was drawn to correspond as closely as possible to the topographic boundary between hills and plains. The hills would belong to the Garo Hills District while the plains went to Mymensingh. Garos were thus stranded between India and East Pakistan. The international border has separated the Garos from the hill Garos since 1947. In this paper attempt will make to show how mobility (transnational connectivity, social and economic mobility) plays an important role in the everyday life and future aspirations of the indigenous community of the Garos in East-Pakistan (later Bangladesh) who were on search for identity in an alien homeland.

Partition, Identity, Tribal Community, East-Pakistan, Mobility etc

"Partition (1947) and the Garos: On Search for Identity in an “Insecure” Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.p410-p417, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305G58.pdf

"Partition (1947) and the Garos: On Search for Identity in an “Insecure” Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppp410-p417, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305G58.pdf