Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Regional Perspectives On India's Partition Shifting The Vantage Points
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032244174
Pages: 238 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 5/4/2023
Series: Routledge Series on South Asian Culture
Category: Regional Geography