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This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories around the regions of Punjab and Bengal. It will be of interest to colonial and postcolonial studies, modern Asian/South Asian, and studies of memory and trauma.
List of contents
Introduction
; 1.
Shadowy Pasts of Violence and their Negotiation: Rethinking Partition Violence (1947)
; 2. Bordering the Nation: Livelihood, Labour and Memory in Bangla Partition Fictions from Assam and Tripura
; 3. Brick, Verse, Echo: Partition and the Decline of Urdu Poetry in Jeelani Bano's
Aiwan-
e-Ghazal (1976)
; 4. Poisoned Rivers: Partition in Punjabi Literature
; 5. Screening the Spectre
; 6. Multan
; 7. Sites of Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Post-Partition Punjab
; 8. Sindhi Sikhs: Their Histories and Memories
; 9. Partitioned Subjects: Women in Mainland 'Permanent Liability' Camps and Andaman's Archipelagic Settlements
; 10. Caught in a Time Warp: The Fate of the West Pakistan Refugees in Jammu and Kashmir
; 11. Living off the Grid: Surviving the Stateless Era in India-Bangladesh
Chhitmahals (Enclaves
; 12. Histories, Territories, Partitions, and Memories among the Zo hnahthlak and the Chakma in the State of Mizoram
; 13. The Mechanics of Partition
; 14. Vicissitudes of Listening: Witness as the Archive of Pain
About the author
Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She is the author of
Memories and Post-memories of the Partition of India (2019) and
Imperialism and Sikh Migration (2017), also published by Routledge.
Nandi Bhatia is Professor in the Department of English and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Arts and Humanities at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her monograph
Women's Stories of India's Partition is forthcoming with Routledge.
Summary
This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories around the regions of Punjab and Bengal. It will be of interest to colonial and postcolonial studies, modern Asian/South Asian, and studies of memory and trauma.
