Regional perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points (Routledge Series on South Asian Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032244178 ISBN 13: 9781032244174

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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 from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal.

Building on existing research on Partition, the chapters present and analyse the consequences of Partition displacement and the resilience of communities in different parts of the nation. Regions discussed include the Chitmahals, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Hyderabad, Andaman Islands, and Jammu and Kashmir. The contributors show that the heterogeneity of people’s experiences reside in spaces of the family, home, neighbourhoods, villages, towns and cities refugee settlements, letters, memoirs, biographies, films, fiction, oral histories, and testimonies. The book examines the Partition’s complex effects in regions, localities and contexts and its material and psychological ramifications.

This book is a unique and comprehensive contribution in enabling a more complex understanding of how Partition played out and continues to do so for groups and generations across India. It will be of interest to a multidisciplinary audience, including history, literature, comparative literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, modern Asian studies, studies of South Asia, and studies of memory and trauma.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032244178
• ISBN 13: 9781032244174
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Roy Anjali Gera, Bhatia Nandi