Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India

Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India

Author: Anjali Roy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0429017367

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This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors’ narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors’ journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.


The Palaces of Memory

The Palaces of Memory

Author: Stuart Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907893780

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The Palaces of Memories is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafs which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism and a now-faded grandeur. Stuart Freedman has visited more than thirty of the most significant and beautiful Coffee Houses throughout India. Away from the stereotypes of poverty and exotica they have allowed him to enter an 'ordinary' India, an environment which echoes the greasy-spoon cafes of a long-forgotten London.


Imperial Sceptics

Imperial Sceptics

Author: Gregory Claeys

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139492551

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Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850–1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion. Claeys locates the impetus for such opposition in the late 1850s with the British followers of Auguste Comte. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought through to the First World War, Claeys then scrutinises the full spectrum of socialist writings from the early 1880s onwards, revealing a fundamental division over whether a new conception of 'socialist imperialism' could appeal to the electorate and satisfy economic demands. Based upon extensive archival research, and utilising rare printed sources, Imperial Sceptics will prove a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought, shedding new light on theories of nationalism, patriotism, the state and religion.


Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration

Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration

Author: Sadan Jha

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1000429423

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This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; and the city to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of internal migration in India in historical perspectives. Departing from the dominant understanding of migration as an aberration impelled by economic factors, the book focuses on the centrality of migration in the making of society. Based on case studies from an array of geo-cultural regions from across India, the volume views migrants as active agents with their own determinations of selfhood and location. Part of the series Migrations in South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, gender studies, development studies, social work, political economy, social history, political studies, social and cultural anthropology, exclusion studies, sociology, and South Asian Studies.


India

India

Author: Indian National Congress. British Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Remnants of Partition

Remnants of Partition

Author: Aanchal Malhotra

Publisher: Hurst & Company

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 178738120X

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Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?


Vrindaban Days (English)

Vrindaban Days (English)

Author: Howard Wheeler (Hayagriva Dasa)

Publisher: Golden Age Media

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9389050618

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The captivating documentary “Vrindaban Days” transports viewers to the holy Indian village of Vrindavan, known as the mysterious playground of Lord Krishna. This beautiful book provides readers with an up-close and personal glimpse into the spirituality, lively culture, and timelessness of Vrindavan, where the divine and the mundane coexist in perfect harmony.