The Partitions of Memory - The Afterlife of the Division of India

Suggests ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unraveled. This book demonstrates how fundamental the material and symbolic histories of Partition are to much that has happened in South Asia since 1947.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction Suvir Kaul

Partition and the North West Frontier: Memories of Some Khudai Khidmatgars Mukulika Banerjee

Right or Charity? The Debate over Relief and Rehabilitation in West Bengal, 1947-50 Joya Chatterji

Partition Politics and Acchut Identity: A Study of the Scheduled Castes Federation and Dalit Politics in UP, 1946-48 Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Qutb and Modern Memory Sunil Kumar

Performing Partition in Lahore Richard McGill Murphy

An Archive with a Difference: Partition Letters Urvashi Butalia

Bodies Inflicting Pain: Masculinity, Morality, and Cultural Identity in Manto's "Cold Meat" Priyamvada Gopal

Children and the Partition Nita Kumar

About the author

Suvir Kaul, is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Thomas Gray and Literary Authority; Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Summary

Suggests ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unraveled. This book demonstrates how fundamental the material and symbolic histories of Partition are to much that has happened in South Asia since 1947.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edited by Suvir Kaul (Editor), Suvir Kaul (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2002
• EAN: 9780253215666
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21566-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 345 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education