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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