partition
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‘Azadi’: In Chaman Nahal’s 1975 novel, the reality of the Partition dawns, and lives are destroyed
Chaman Nahal
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How Indian Railways coped with displacement and staff shortage after the Partition
Aniruddha Bose
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‘A Lost People’s Archive’ sweeps a net over Bengal’s personal, political, and cultural histories
Saloni Sharma
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Hard work, sacrifice, gender: What the visceral afterlife of the Partition in India reveals
Pranav Kohli
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A family searches for its identity as their village becomes Pakistani, then Bangladeshi, from Indian
Rashmi Narzary
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In Attia Hosain’s unfinished, untitled 1972 novel, two Indian men have renounced their ‘country’
Ritu Menon
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The inheritance of loss: ‘History may be written by victors but songs are sung by survivors’
Alapan Bandyopadhyay Alison James Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas Avik Chanda
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Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation
Joginder Paul
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Is there resistance in invisibility, non-cooperation in silence? Reflections from the Kochi Biennale
Arundhati Ghosh
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Now in its 11th edition, Manohar Malgonkar’s classic revisits the plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi
Manohar Malgonkar
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‘The pall of death still surrounds me’: Artist Ganesh Haloi recounts growing up during the Partition
Ganesh Haloi
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‘Dark Star’: Decisions made by men without consideration for women affect their lives and memories
Sakshi Agarwal
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A mother tongue Partition consumed intact: The depletion and revival of Sindhi language and culture
Saaz Aggarwal
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Fiction: In her final days, an elderly woman remembers lifelong horrors of misogyny and nationalism
Ranbir Sidhu
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‘The Book of Everlasting Things’: A novel that is gained in imagination, squandered by the prose
Shubhangi Tiwari
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How did the Partition affect the people of Sindh? Using true stories, a new book finds out
Saaz Aggarwal
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Aanchal Malhotra’s ‘Remnants of Partition’ wins US-based Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award
Scroll Staff
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Was the British empire a benign, progressive force? My family story proves otherwise
Dipankar Das
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‘Hyderabad’, a novel about a state’s quest for self-rule, is a fine balance of fact and fiction
Saloni Sharma
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How the trauma of Partition survivors has been intensified by India-Pakistan animosity
Ammara Ahmad