1st Edition
Partition and the South Asian Diaspora Exploring (Inherited) Memories and Creative Practices of Remembering
Introduction – Partition and the South Asian diaspora: exploring (inherited) memories and creative practices of remembering
Jasmine Hornabrook, Clelia Clini, Paul Nataraj and Emily Keightley
1. Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora
Clelia Clini, Jasmine Hornabrook, Paul Nataraj and Emily Keightley
2. Strains of friendship: post-partition rāgadārī music publics in London
Radha Kapuria
3. Remembering partition in diaspora films
Shyama Sadasivan and Anjali Gera Roy
4. Bangladesh independence in migrant memories and futures: from commemoration to narrativisation of 1971 in British Bangladeshi diaspora
Zakir Hossain Raju
5. The legacy of loss: a contemporary take on the Bengal partition of 1947 through the lens of art
Rituparna Roy
6. London's little histories of the Sikhs: Rav Singh in conversation
Rav Singh
Biography
Jasmine Hornabrook is Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and collaborative arts-based research with South Asian diasporic groups around England and multi-sited fieldwork in South Asia. Jasmine’s research interests include migration, music, transnationalism, religion, and memory in British South Asian diasporas.
Clelia Clini is Cultural Ethnographer and Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture at London Metropolitan University. Her research interests include postcolonial migration, memory, and cultural heritage, and South Asian (diasporic) cinemas and literature. Clelia is currently working on a project on the British Sikh response to the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest.
Paul Nataraj is Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University. His research interests include South Asian diaspora, sound, memory, and sonic materiality. His sound art practice also explores these areas of interest. He has made work for the British Textile Biennale, exhibited at the Kochi Biennale 2022 and has recently been part of the UK national touring show, Jerwood Survey III.
Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies at Loughborough University. Emily’s main research interest is memory, time, and their mediation in everyday life. She is particularly concerned with the role of media in the relationship between individual, social, and cultural memory. Her recent work has focused on the relationship between migration, identity and memory.
