1st Edition

Migration, Memories, and the "Unfinished" Partition

Edited By Amit Ranjan Copyright 2024
236 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

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... Read more

      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 

5. Muhajir Narratives of Homes Lost and Found: Nostalgia and Belonging in the Novels of Intizar Husain and the Columns of The Daily Pasban

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

Amit Ranjan

Biography

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