Partition and the Practice of Memory

1. Introduction: Partition and the Practice of Memory
Churnjeet Mahn, Anne Murphy

Part I. Commemoration in the Everyday

2. Music and its Many Memories: Complicating 1947 for the Punjab
Radha Kapuria

3. From Udero Lal in Sindh to Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra: Partition and Memories Across Borders in the Tradition of Jhulelal
Michel Boivin, Bhavna Rajpal

4. Between Mini-India and Sonar Bangla: The Memorialisation and Place-Making Practices of East Bengal Hindu Refugees in the Andaman Islands
Philipp Zehmisch

Part II. The Archive and the Literary

5. The Story of Partition from the Official and the Alternate Archives
Pallavi Chakravarty

6. Narrating Trauma, Constructing Binaries, Affirming Agency: Partition in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

7. Relocating the Memory of the Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Defend Yourself Against Me

Daniela Vitolo

8. Poetics of Pain: Writing the Memory of Partition
Anne Castaing

Part III. Specters of Partition within the Lived Present

9. The Gulbarg Memorial and the Problem of Memory
Heba Ahmed

10. The Shahbag Protest and Imagining an “Ideal” Bangladesh
Sanchari De

11. Remembering a Lost Presence: The Spectre of Partition in the Stories of Lahore-Based Punjabi-Language Author Zubair Ahmed
Anne Murphy

12. In Ruins: Cultural Amnesia at the Aam Khas Bagh
Churnjeet Mahn

Nyckelord: History, History of South Asia, Memory Studies, Cultural History, Social History