"This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of survivors and their children to show how they script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry…
This book is a short introduction to the causes, experiences, the aftermath and the legacies of the Partition of India. It introduces the history and the major debates in the writing about this division. The book asks the reader to reflect on the many ways of framing 1947 and it…
"This is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of a defining period in India's recent past - the attainment of independence and the simultaneous division of the subcontinent. Exploring the interplay of imperial, national and communal forces during the freedom movement. Sucheta M…
On the sufferings of women during the partition of India in 1947; includes personal narratives.
On the sufferings of women during the partition of India in 1947; includes personal narratives.
The dark legacies of Partition have cast a long shadow on the lives of the people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The borders that were drawn in 1947, and redrawn in 1971, divided not only nations and histories but also families and friends. The essays in this volume explore …
The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, with a focus on gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of 'the refugee woman from East Bengal.' It examines three significant Partition texts from West Bengal, Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, J…
