Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. This item is unavailable.Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics

Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar’s notion of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic, and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on communities throughout the South Asian diaspora.

The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal, multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia in relation to several topics, including decolonization and post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.

Amritjit Singh is Langston Hughes professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Ohio University.

Nalini Iyer is professor of English at Seattle University.

Rahul K. Gairola is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in South Asian literatures in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Rohit K Dasgupta is associate professor in gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Radhika Mohanram is a Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK. Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.