From Quetta To Delhi A Partition Story

Author : Reena Nanda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386643445

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From Quetta to Delhi: A Partition Story by Reena Nanda Pdf

This story is a cameo set against the backdrop of Partition - a decision taken by political leaders in Britain and India that shattered the lives of ordinary people like the family in this narrative who at that time were living in Quetta, Baluchistan. Viewing victims of the Partition of Punjab in the light of post traumatic stress has been long overdue. The narrator's mother's method of coping with the traumatic present was to escape into the past by reliving her memories of Quetta and her beloved Pathans along with the mundane, insignificant little details of the women's daily lives. Her recall hinges on the drama of the trivial, on food,rituals, clothes, religious practices and neighbourhood bonding. It was a syncretic culture, of multilinguism - Urdu,Punjabi and Seraiki, Persian and Sanskrit, of multiple identities through the biradaris - caste,mohalla and religion. The author's grandmother kept the Guru Granth Sahib at home, her mother and sisters practiced Hindu rituals, while her husband was an agnostic. And everyone made pilgrimages to Sufi pirs.

Author : Anjali Gera Roy,Nandi Bhatia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000829242

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Regional perspectives on India's Partition by Anjali Gera Roy,Nandi Bhatia Pdf

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.

Author : Elora Halim Chowdhury,Esha Niyogi De
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780295747866

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South Asian Filmscapes by Elora Halim Chowdhury,Esha Niyogi De Pdf

In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South Asian cultural production continues today. South Asian Filmscapes excavates these complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners, while others interrogate how filmic politics intersects with discourses of nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language. Together, they offer a fluid approach to the multiple histories and encounters that conjure “South Asia” as a geographic and political entity in the region and globally through a cinematic imagination.

Author : Tarun K. Saint
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429560002

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Witnessing Partition by Tarun K. Saint Pdf

This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.

Author : Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787382589

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Remnants of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra Pdf

Seventy years on from the partition of India, a momentous event now recedes in memory. Despite being born into a family affected by the great divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra had thought little about it until she encountered the objects her own great-grandparents had saved as they fled their homes: jewelry, kitchen utensils, photographs, and a pocketknife. Remnants of Partition is a unique revisiting of Partition through dozens of personal belongings carried between the new India and Pakistan, amid the chaos of communal killings and mass displacement. Hidden in these objects is the memory of a time and place, a story of migration, and a life that once was. Malhotra unearths possessions from both sides of the border, interviewing their owners and uncovering a rich tapestry of struggle, sacrifice, pain, and identities forged and unforged. From a string of pearls gifted by a maharaja to a young woman's poetry notebook, this is an extraordinary alternative history of Partition, both powerful and poignant. Aanchal Malhotra takes the material legacy of a unique human drama, and places it back in our hands as vivid, living memory.

Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300233643

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The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan Pdf

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC

Author : Rotem Geva
Publisher : South Asia in Motion
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1503631192

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Delhi Reborn by Rotem Geva Pdf

Delhi Reborn revisits one of the most dramatic moments in the city's history, illustrating how the twin events of partition and independence remade Delh.

Author : Yuvraj Krishan
Publisher : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : 8172762771

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Understanding Partition by Yuvraj Krishan Pdf

This book brings out with clarity the growth of separatist movement in India leading to her partition.

Author : Amit Ranjan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003850069

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Migration, Memories, and the "Unfinished" Partition by Amit Ranjan Pdf

This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947. The Partition uprooted millions of people from their homelands. This volume examines the initial difficulties faced by the refugees in settling down in their adopted land. It analyses the state’s efforts in facilitating the movement of refugees, the processes it initiated to resettle them after Partition, and the extent to which it was successful. This book also investigates the links between socio-political developments in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as a result of the Partition. Drawing on archival sources, oral histories and literary representations, the contributing authors discuss and analyse the experiences of the migrated population. Part of the Migrations in South Asia series, this book will be an important read for scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, Partition studies, Indian history, Indian politics, and South Asian studies.

Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839021312

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Yash Chopra by Rachel Dwyer Pdf

As a charismatic director in the Indian film industry, Chopra's name is synonymous with the glamour of the romantic film and a certain style within Indian culture. Spanning four decades, his directed features include some of the classic films of Indian film history, such as 'Deewaar' and 'Kabhi Kabhie'. His directorial career began in 1959 with 'Dhool Ka Phool' and he has been a major producer since 1973, consolidating his success in the 1990s with a series of huge box office hits including 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'. He has also worked in other Hindi movie genres, directing action movies such as 'Mashaal' and a thriller, 'Darr'. This book discusses in depth his work with the Hindi megastar Amitabh Bachanan in films such as 'Deewaar', 'Trishul', 'Kala Patthar' and 'Silsila' and how, in his transformation of the look of mainstream cinema in 'Dil To Pagal Hai' and other films, Yash Chopra has proved to be a tireless innovator within a mainstream tradition. The author integrates this analysis with information about the man and his work, based on interviews with Yash Chopra, his family, his colleagues, his stars, his contemporaries and major critics that include views from Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Shashi Kapoor and Sri Devi. A study of a top contemporary Indian film director, Rachel Dwyer's book also examines the influence on Chopra of predecessors such as Raj Kapoor and how his own legacy can be seen in such films as 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' and younger directors such as Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra.

Author : Elisabeth Bumiller
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Women
ISBN : 0140156712

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May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller Pdf

A Journey Among The Women Of India In This Travelogue, Washington Post Reporter In India Elisabeth Bumiller, Goes To Most Parts Of India Examining The Realities Of The Lives Of Indian Women: Villagers, Movie-Stars, Intellectuals, Police-Women And Others.

Author : Devendra Panigrahi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135768133

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India's Partition by Devendra Panigrahi Pdf

This title offers an examination of the circumstances surrounding india's independence from Britain and the partition of the subcontinent.

Author : Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Publisher : New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951002203907I

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Facts are Facts by Khan Abdul Wali Khan Pdf

Author : Pranav Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009354646

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Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation by Pranav Kohli Pdf

This is an ethnographic monograph that studies the memories of the 1947 Partition of India. It examines how survivors use the ideology of Hindu nationalism to rationalise the Partition's death and suffering.

Author : Gyanesh Kudaisya,Tan Tai Yong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134440474

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The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia by Gyanesh Kudaisya,Tan Tai Yong Pdf

This book draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath. It uses a comparative approach by viewing South Asia in its totality, rather than looking at it in narrow 'national' terms. As the first book to focus on the aftermath of partition, it fills a distinctive niche in the study of contemporary South Asia.