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Narrating South Asian Partition

By Anindya Raychaudhuri

Narrating South Asian Partition

By Anindya Raychaudhuri

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The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal moment in time. Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on a direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways this event is remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed--and the narrator's role in this process. These stories also reflect on the themes of home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers within these public and private narratives. Crucially, Raychaudhuri is the first writer to use oral history in addressing the Bengal/Punjab partition as part of this same event, examining the memorial legacy in both the Bengali and Punjabi communities.
Product details
Number of Pages:
234
Release Date:
2019-07-01
Publication Date:
2019-07-01
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190249749
ISBN13:
9780190249748
Weight:
520 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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