The experience of the Partition (1947)—the contexts of migration and the experience of refugeehood—in East-India is assumed to be different from that in the West. But, even after some 70 years after the Partition, there has been no substantial study on the difference in the ontology of refugeehood across the two sites. More to it, narratives from the North-east (Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura), which again differ significantly from their western Indian or West Bengali counterparts, are under-represented in the existing database of oral narratives and ethnographies on the Partition. Departing from here, this paper engages in a critical comparative study—across three spatial axes: western India, West Bengal, and North-east India—of the third generation’s experience of “growing up refugee” in India. It offers a nuanced, but empirically-grounded, insight on how memories and narratives of the Partition are grounded in the linguistic registers of those who “grew up refugee” (not the refugees per se). Based on interviews, this paper analyzes the patterns, circulations, transactions, tropes, and motifs in the linguistic registers using methodologies of Digital Humanities, and how they compare across spatial axes.

东印度的分裂（1947 年）经历——移民的背景和难民的经历——被认为与西方不同。但是，即使在分区之后大约 70 年之后，也没有对两个地点的难民本体论差异进行实质性研究。更重要的是，来自东北部（梅加拉亚邦、阿萨姆邦、特里普拉邦）的叙事再次与西印度或西孟加拉邦的对应物显着不同，在该分区现有的口头叙事和民族志数据库中代表性不足。从这里出发，本文对第三代在印度“成长为难民”的经历进行了一项批判性的比较研究——跨越三个空间轴：印度西部、西孟加拉邦和印度东北部。它提供了一种细致入微但以经验为基础的，关于分区的记忆和叙述如何建立在“难民长大”（而不是难民本身）的语言记录中的见解。本文在访谈的基础上，使用数字人文的方法论分析了语言语域中的模式、循环、交易、比喻和主题，以及它们如何跨空间轴进行比较。