1st Edition
Migration, Memories, and the "Unfinished" Partition
This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947. The Partition uprooted millions of people from their homelands. This volume examines the initial difficulties faced by the refugees in settling down in their adopted land. It analyses the state’s efforts in facilitating the movement of refugees, the processes it initiated to resettle them after Partition, and the extent to which it was successful. This book also investigates the links between socio-political developments in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as a result of the Partition.
Drawing on archival sources, oral histories and literary representations, the contributing authors discuss and analyse the experiences of the migrated population. Part of the Migrations in South Asia series, this book will be an important read for scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, Partition studies, Indian history, Indian politics, and South Asian studies.
1. Imaginary Homelands in Postmemories of Displaced Punjabi Migrants
Anjali Gera Roy
2. From Multan to Lucknow: The Journey that Wasn’t—A Study with reference to Yashpal’s Jhootha Sach
Priyamvada Tiwari
3. Partition and the History of Evacuee Property in Pakistan
Ilyas Chattha
4. Nostalgia and the Construction of "Home": Intergenerational Memory and Remembrance of the East Bengali Migrants
Subhasri Ghosh
Isha Dubey
6. Passage through Partition: Stories of Five Families
Sayeed Ferdous
7. Partition's Long Shadow: Post-Partition Migration and the Citizenship Conundrum in Post-Colonial Assam
Binayak Dutta
8. Rootless but with Global Ties: The Story of Sindhi Partition Migrants
Saaz Aggarwal
9. The Legacy of India’s Partition: A Story of Violence & Migration in Jammu & Kashmir
Sajad Padder and Ambreen Gul Shah
10. Artists and the Radcliffe Line: Partition Migrants on the Silver Screen and "Others" in the Hindi Film Industry
Biography
Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
