Postmemory and the Partition of India

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Postmemory and the Partition of India

Learning to Remember

Social and cultural anthropology Historiography Asian history Colonialism and imperialism

Author: Shuchi Kapila

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Collection: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 13th March 2024

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783031433979


Book Overview

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood.

It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

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