Research Catalog

Title

Revisiting India's partition : new essays on memory, culture, and politics / edited by Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, Rahul K. Gairola.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Singh, Amritjit.
• Iyer, Nalini.
• Gairola, Rahul K., 1974-

Description

xxxv, 363 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection contains nineteen interdisciplinary essays that explore the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subject--themes as well as regions within South Asia--that illustrate Vazira Zamindar's idea of a 'Long Partition'"--Provided by pubolisher.

Subjects

• Collective memory > South Asia
• South Asia > Politics and government
• Politics and culture > South Asia
• India > History > Partition, 1947 > Influence
• Memory > Political aspects > South Asia
• South Asia > Social conditions
• Memory > Social aspects > South Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section I. Approaches to partition -- Specters of democracy/the gender of specters : cultural memory and the Indian partition / Radhika Mohanram -- Lost homes, shifting borders and the search for belonging / Jasbir Jain -- A will to say or unsay : female silences and discursive interventions in partition narratives / Parvinder Mehta -- Migrations in absentia : multinational digital advertising and manipulation of partition trauma / Rahul. K. Gairola -- Section II. Nations and narrations -- Exorcizing the ghosts of times past : partition memoirs as testimony / Tarun K. Saint -- Difficult choices : work, family, and displaced women in partition writings / Debali Mookerjea-Leonard -- Refugees as Homo sacers : partition and the national imaginary in The hungry tide / Amrita Ghosh -- Section III. Borders and borderlands -- Property, violence and displacement : partition in Sindh / Nandita Bhavnani -- The long shadow of 1947 : partition, violence and displacement in Jammu and Kashmir / Ilyas Chattha -- From frontiers to borders : partition and the production of marginal spaces in north east India / Babyrani Yumnam -- Looking east : melodramatic narrative, ecotheater and the "forgotten long march" in Jangam / Amit R. Baishya -- Section IV. From Pakistan to Bangladesh -- The never-ending partition : Pakistan's self-identification dilemma / Amber Fatima Riaz -- Partition and the Bangladeshi literary response / Kaiser Haq -- Cosmopolitan aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar / Masood A. Raja -- The nexus of class, identity and politics in the representational economy of partition : the case of Hasan Azizul Huq / Mohd. Rezaul Haque -- Partition and beyond : Intizar Husain's quest for meaning and vision / Tasneem Shahnaaz and Amritjit Singh -- Section V. Partitions within -- Buckle in the Hindu Belt : contemporary Hindu-Muslim violence and the legacy of partition in Banaras / Jeremy A. Rinker -- Hyderabad, partition, and Hindutva : strategic revisitings in Neelkanth's "Durga" (2005) / Nazia Akhtar -- Partition's others : the view from South India / Nalini Iyer.

Call Number

JFE 16-7244

ISBN

• 9781498531047
• 1498531040
• 9781498531054
• 1498531059

LCCN

2016008132

OCLC

940957988

Title

Revisiting India's partition : new essays on memory, culture, and politics / edited by Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, Rahul K. Gairola.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Singh, Amritjit.

Iyer, Nalini.

Gairola, Rahul K., 1974-

Other Form:

Online version: Revisiting India's partition. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016 9781498531054 (DLC) 2016009339

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7244