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Manisha Madhu, manishamadhu7@gmail.com Research scholar in the Department of English studies, Kannur University Resurfacing: The Politics of Erasure and Acts of Remembrances in Deep Halder’s Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre This paper aims to re-investigate the Marichjhapi Massacre in the light of the emergent modalities of ‘re-membering’ and erasing erasures. Walter Benjamin’s famous formulation that “there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism” rings true in the context of the Morichjhapi Massacre, a lesser known Dalit Genocide, which occurred in the fateful year of 1979 in Marichjhapi, one of the marshy islands of the Sundarbans in West Bengal, killing more than 10,000 people with official records documenting only 10. Commissioned by the government, these barbaric acts were guised under their well-intended motive to conserve forests. Carefully and strategically swept under the rugs with a calculated scheme to ...