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

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

238 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000829242

Related ISBNs:

9781003278498, 9781032244174, 9781032244150

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/05/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Anjali Gera Roy

Edited by:

Nandi Bhatia