Exhibition

Representing partition in the UK: an archive, an exhibition and a classroom

Author(s): 
K.M. Greenbank
Publisher/Sponsor: 
India Review
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14736489.2021.1993711

In 2005 Rev. Michael Roden, the vicar at Church of England church of St Mary’s in Hitchin (a small town about 30 miles north of London) was invited to India to give a series of sermons to Indian Church of England congregations. He was struck during his visit by the scars in Indian society that he thought were the remnants of Partition’s aftermath. His visit set him thinking about the ways in which Partition has shaped British as well as Indian and Pakistani society, and about how little people in the UK know about the calamitous results of British policy at the time of decolonization.