Migration, Memories, and the "Unfinished" Partition

ISBN-13: 9781032608655 / Twarda / 2024 / 250 str.

Opis

This book looks at migration through the lens of the 1947 Partition of India.

Spis treści

1.  Imaginary Homelands in Postmemories of Displaced Punjabi Migrants 2. From Multan to Lucknow: The Journey That Wasn’t-A Study with reference to Yashpal’s Jhootha Sach  3. Partition and the History of Evacuee Property in Pakistan  4.  Nostalgia and the Construction of ‘Home:’ Inter-Generational Memory and Remembrance of the East Bengali Migrants  5. Muhajir Narratives of Homes Lost and Found: Nostalgia and belonging in the novels of Intizar Husain and the columns of The Daily Pasban 6. Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families 7. Partition's Long Shadow: Post-partition migration and the Citizenship Conundrum in post-colonial Assam 8.  Rootless but with global ties: the story of  Sindhi Partition migrants 9. The Legacy of India’s Partition: A Story of Violence & Migration in Jammu & Kashmir 10.  Artists and the Radcliffe Line: Partition migrants on silver screen and "Others" in the Hindi Film industry

O autorze

Amit Ranjan, Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.