Partition

On Independence Day, Hyderabad Remained a Vast Hole at the Centre of New India’s Map

Author(s): 
Sunil Purushotham
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The Wire
https://thewire.in/history/india-independence-1947-hyderabad

"As the country waves flags and celebrates the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, it is also time to take stock. What did India’s founders and citizens dream of, how has India fared, what have been our challenges and successes?

The Wire’s reporters and contributors bring stories of the period, of the traumas but also the hopes of Indians, as seen in personal accounts, in culture, in the economy and in the sciences. How did the modern state of India come about, what does the flag represent? How did literature and cinema tackle the trauma of Partition?"

From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi: rehabilitation, representation and the partition of Bengal (1947)

Author(s): 
Debjani Sengupta
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2011.535673

The Partition of India (1947) is commonly understood as a violent territorial and political separation of peoples, their forced evictions and migration as well as communal upheavals. But India's Partition can be seen as something more than separation of communities and the creation of distinct national identities. This paper suggests that refugee rehabilitation, one of the important processes of the post-Partition years, formed the rubric through which we remember 1947.

The silence of partition: borders, trauma, and partition history

Author(s): 
Jennifer Yusin
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361141

In contrast to the story of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan as an epiphenomenal event of independence, this article suggests that the division of British India signaled a unique rupture in which the creation of borders became the defining traumatic event of that history.

Diving Deeper into Narrative of Indian Partition; Literature's Role in a holistic understanding of Partition

Author(s): 
Bhumika Hooda
Publisher/Sponsor: 
O.P.Jindal Global University
www.researchgate.net/publication/356209616_Diving_Deeper_into_Narrative_of_Indian_Partition_Literature%27s_Role_in_a_holistic_understanding_of_Partition

India and Pakistan will celebrate their 74th Independence Day this year. Both the countries have come far from their situation on the eve of independence, in terms of infrastructure, economy, globalization and overall development. Yet, the ghost of horrendous partition continues to haunt both nations, with the relationship between India and Pakistan still strained after more than half a century. It is finally time to understand the totality of partition to overcome these differences and come to terms with the past.

Partition and the Historiography of Art in South Asia

Author(s): 
Aparna Megan Kumar
Publisher/Sponsor: 
University of California, Los Angeles
www.worldcat.org/title/1096378194

This dissertation investigates the impact of the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 on the development of art, art institutions, and aesthetic discourse in India and Pakistan in the twentieth century. At the core of this study is the history of the Lahore Museum, whose collections of art and archaeology were divided between the emerging nations of India and Pakistan beginning in 1948.

Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition

Shahla Hussain
Cambridge University Press
2021

Why Partition survivors in the US believe it's vital to keep talking about the trauma of 1947

Author(s): 
Kavita Daiya
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Scroll.in
scroll.in/bulletins/319/watch-manish-mundras-directorial-debut-siya-sheds-light-on-indias-rape-crisis

Former refugees from both India and Pakistan, who spoke at a recent event, see their experiences reflected in Syrians seeking refuge in Europe.

The 1947 Partition, War, and Internment

Kavita Daiya
Cambridge University Press
2021

The novels on the Indian partition

Author(s): 
D R More
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Shivaji University
bit.ly/3Bvol8g

Partition and the Practice of Memory

Churnjeet Mahn
Anne Murphy
Palgrave Macmillan
2018

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