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Partition

Mapmaking, Partition Stories from 2 Bengals

Debjani Sengupta
Srishti Publishers & Distributors
2008

Bengali Communities in Colonial Assam

Sanghamitra Misra
Asian History
2019

Partition, Migration, and Identity: A Reading of Sundri Uttamchandani’s Deh Thyo Pardeh

Vidya Tewani
mutemelodist
2021

BBC’s “Partition Voices” Chronicles the Reverberating Pain of 1947

Author(s): 
Jasleena Grewal
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Kajal
https://www.kajalmag.com/bbcs-partition-voices-chronicles-the-reverberating-pain-of-1947/

Reena Varma: Teary-eyed Indian welcomed in Pakistan after 75 years

Author(s): 
Shumaila Jaffery
Publisher/Sponsor: 
BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62250407

Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over the region

Author(s): 
Erin Blakemore
Publisher/Sponsor: 
National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/partition-of-india-and-pakistan-history-legacy

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

Curating the Partition: dissonant heritage and Indian nation building

Author(s): 
Ted Svensson
Publisher/Sponsor: 
International Journal of Heritage Studies
bit.ly/3ylha0M

The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Museum in Amritsar and the online 1947 Partition Archive.

Communities and identities in the afterlife of partition of India the interface between immigrants and host society in North Bengal 1947_1971

Author(s): 
Prajna Paromita Podder
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Jadavpur University
http://hdl.handle.net/10603/359594

"In recent years the theme of the long afterlife of the Partition of India has emerged as a major preoccupation in Partition Studies in South Asia. Drawing upon this burgeoning field of scholarship, the present thesis is an attempt to study this long afterlife in a specific geographical context and its specifics. But, more significantly, the thesis is an attempt to suggest that it is the very dynamic of post-Partition displacement and relocation that determines why the afterlife cannot but be long.

Sky In My Heart: A Partition Story of Sindh

Nandlal Parasramani
Maple Press
2021

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