In The Shadow Of Partition
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In The Shadow Of Partition
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Author : Nalini Iyer
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-12-02
In The Shadow Of Partition written by Nalini Iyer and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-02 with Social Science categories.
This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The seventy-fifth anniversary of Partition confronts scholars with significantly new subjects for reflection. The question of historical memory has now largely transformed to one of its reproductions through mass politics and mass media and, perhaps, professional academic inquiry, while the very meaning or value of Independence is in crisis. This edited volume includes chapters on representations of partition experiences and the re-drawing of the subcontinent’s political map. While the impact of the partition of the Punjab has been the focus of much scholarly studies in the past, and Bengal to a smaller extent, this collection extends the examination of the impact of this political event elsewhere in other communities in the subcontinent, and across other differentials. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of Indian history, Partition studies, literature, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
The Shadow Of The Great Game
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Author : Narendra Singh Sarila
language : en
Publisher: Constable
Release Date : 2017-08-10
The Shadow Of The Great Game written by Narendra Singh Sarila and has been published by Constable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with History categories.
The untold story of India's Partition. The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - and partition. Narendra Singh Sarela reveals here how hte Great Gane against the Soviet Union cast a long shadow. The top-secret documentary evidence unearthed by the author sheds new light on several prominent figures, including Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell and Nerhu. This radical reassessment of one of the key events in British colonial history is important in itself, but its claim that many of the roots of Islamic terrorism sweeping the world today lie in the partition of India has much wider implications.
Partition Voices
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Author : Kavita Puri
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Partition Voices written by Kavita Puri and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with History categories.
UPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera 'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer 'Thanks to Ms. Puri and others, [that] silence is giving way to inquisitive-and assertive-voices. In Britain, at least, the partitioned have learned to speak frankly of the past-and to search for ways to reckon with it' Wall Street Journal ________________________ Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent developments in the lives of those affected by partition. The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. But their memory of partition has been shrouded in silence. In her eye-opening and timely work, Kavita Puri uncovers remarkable testimonies from former subjects of the Raj who are now British citizens – including her own father. Weaving a tapestry of human experience over seven decades, Puri reveals a secret history of ruptured families and friendships, extraordinary journeys and daring rescue missions that reverberates with compassion and loss. It is a work that breaks the silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of Britain's shared past with South Asia.
South Asian Partition Fiction In English
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Author : Rituparna Roy
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2010
South Asian Partition Fiction In English written by Rituparna Roy and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dit boek is een literaire studie naar Zuid-Aziatische Engelstalige fictie vanaf midden jaren vijftig tot de late jaren tachtig over de afscheiding van Pakistan en Bangladesh van India, oftewel de Partitie. Het is een fascinerend verhaal over het ontstaan van een nieuw literair genre. Romanschrijvers van verschillende generaties geven hun kijk op dit beslissende moment in de Zuid-Aziatische geschiedenis. In het begin beschreven zij de catastrofe, later werd er meer getheoretiseerd. Aan de hand van zes romans, van onder andere Salman Rushdie, laat Roy zien welke factoren bepalend zijn geweest voor de grote thema's en verhaallijnen in deze romans.
The Shadow Lines
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2005-05-03
The Shadow Lines written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-03 with Fiction categories.
“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic). Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in both tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence—observing the ways in which political events invade private lives—in an “ambitious, funny, poignant” saga (A. K. Ramanujan). “Amusing, sad, wise, and truly international in scope.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Great Partition
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Author : Yasmin Khan
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-04
The Great Partition written by Yasmin Khan and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-04 with History categories.
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Witnessing Partition
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Author : Tarun K. Saint
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Witnessing Partition written by Tarun K. Saint and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with History categories.
This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.
The Long Partition And The Making Of Modern South Asia
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Author : Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-14
The Long Partition And The Making Of Modern South Asia written by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-14 with History categories.
Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized cartography of modern South Asia has largely gone unexamined. In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property. As a result, she reveals the surprising history of the making of the western Indo-Pak border, one of the most highly surveillanced in the world, which came to be instituted in response to this refugee crisis, in order to construct national difference where it was the most blurred. In particular, Zamindar examines the "Muslim question" at the heart of Partition. From the margins and silences of national histories, she draws out the resistance, bewilderment, and marginalization of north Indian Muslims as they came to be pushed out and divided by both emergent nation-states. It is here that Zamindar asks us to stretch our understanding of "Partition violence" to include this long, and in some sense ongoing, bureaucratic violence of postcolonial nationhood, and to place Partition at the heart of a twentieth century of border-making and nation-state formation.
In The Shadow Of Freedom
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Author : Anis Kidwai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-07-01
In The Shadow Of Freedom written by Anis Kidwai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with categories.
Written In The Immediate Aftermath Of Partition, This Moving Document-Part Memoir, Part Diary- Provides An Important Underside To The Mainstream Histories Of Partition. When Anis Kidwai`S Husband, Shafi Ahmed Kidwai, Then A Civil Servant In Mussoorie, And Someone Who Refused To Leave His Job And Abandon His Staff Despite The Threats To His Life, Was Murdered In The Violence Of Partition, She Was Devastated. Seeking Succour, She Went To See Gandhi Who Advised Her To Stop Weeping And Start Doing Some Work. She Did Precisely That, Involving Herself Fully In Camps For People Fleeing To Pakistan, And Those Coming From There. Moved By The Large Numbers Of Abandoned And Destitute Children, She Worked With A Group Of Teachers From Jamia Millia Islamia For Their Care And Adoption. Concerned At The Fate Of Abducted Women, And At The Large Numbers Of Sexual Violations, She Helped In Rehabilitation, Housing, Training. And Thoughout Her Work, She Kept A Record, Not Only Of The Actual Happenings, But Of The Thoughts And Reflections On Human Life, And The Human Condition That Her Work Gave Rise To. It Is These That Imbue This Documentary Account With Complexity And Nuance, And Make This Memorable Book An Important Source Of Valuable Insights, Both For Understanding That Time, And For Drawing Lessons For The Present.
The Partition Of Bengal
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Author : Debjani Sengupta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-22
The Partition Of Bengal written by Debjani Sengupta and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.