1st Edition
Regional perspectives on India's Partition Shifting the Vantage Points
Introduction, Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia; 1. Shadowy Pasts of Violence and their Negotiation: Rethinking Partition Violence (1947), Sukeshi Kamra; 2. Bordering the Nation: Livelihood, Labour and Memory in Bangla Partition Fictions from Assam and Tripura, Debjani Sengupta; 3. Brick, Verse, Echo: Partition and the Decline of Urdu Poetry in Jeelani Bano’s Aiwan–e–Ghazal (1976), Nazia Akhtar; 4. Poisoned Rivers: Partition in Punjabi Literature, Hina Nandrajog; 5. Screening the Spectre, Nishat Haider; 6. Multan, Padmini Mongia; 7. Sites of Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Post-Partition Punjab, Yogesh Snehi; 8. Sindhi Sikhs: Their Histories and Memories, Himadri Banerjee; 9. Partitioned Subjects: Women in Mainland ‘Permanent Liability’ Camps and Andaman’s Archipelagic Settlements, Raka Banerjee; 10. Caught in a Time Warp: The Fate of the West Pakistan Refugees in Jammu and Kashmir, Javaid Iqbal Bhat and Iftikar Hussain Bhat; 11. Living off the Grid: Surviving the Stateless Era in India-Bangladesh Chhitmahals (Enclaves), Md Rashedul Alam; 12. Histories, Territories, Partitions, and Memories among the Zo hnahthlak and the Chakma in the State of Mizoram, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty; 13. The Mechanics of Partition, Gopa Sabharwal; 14. Vicissitudes of Listening: Witness as the Archive of Pain, Sadan Jha
Biography
Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She is the author of Memories and Post-memories of the Partition of India (2019) and Imperialism and Sikh Migration (2017), also published by Routledge.
Nandi Bhatia is Professor in the Department of English and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Arts and Humanities at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her monograph Women’s Stories of India’s Partition is forthcoming with Routledge.
