![]() The revised edition, published August 2018, has twenty-one individuals from India, Pakistan and England remembering their families, journeys and historical events. Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory by Aanchal Malhotra is another instance of revisiting the Partition through the things that remain. Historical studies and oral narratives are only now being supplemented with attention to the objects that survive from the exodus caused by the drawing of boundaries. ![]() The Partition Museum in Amritsar (Punjab, India) hosts a remarkable range of artifacts that have survived from the turbulent times and journeys into India. In 2017, what has since come to known as “Partition Studies” saw a new turn, including an interest in objects that people carried with them on their journeys. There are several accounts of the Partition-historical, imaginative (films and literary writings) and narrative (oral narratives). It took about half a century for Indians to realize that there has been an uncanny silence around the riots that affected millions of people trying to escape to a land of a safer religion or to hold on to the place they felt they had always belonged. ![]() ![]() Freedom from the British rule was the triumph of the nationalist movement and the Partition of the subcontinent into India, East Pakistan and West Pakistan was the tragic co-effect of the independence. ![]() For fifty years after the independence, Indian scholars looked at 1947 as a year of “triumph and tragedy”. ![]()
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