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The Partitions Of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India - Softcover

Suvir Kaul

 
9788178243221: The Partitions Of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India

Synopsis

The essays in this book suggest ways in which the tangled skein of partition might be unravelled two of them deal with culture and history in what is now a part of pakistan other contributors range over issues as diverse as literary reactions to partition; the relief and rehabilitation measures provided to partition refugees; and the dalit claim, at the prospect of partition, to a political community differentiating them from caste-hindus the power of national monuments to evoke a historical past and the power of letters to evoke more immediately poignant pasts, are themes in some of the other essays imaginatively written and grounded in painstaking scholarship, this is a collection for all interested in their own histories

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