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- As a consequence, its impact on cultural and critical narrative has been diverse: partition figures both as a political and as a social rupture—the source of widespread violence and displacement—and as an ongoing source of trauma that continues to shape ethnic and national identities.
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Mar 1, 2024 · Novels, poetry, memoirs, and oral histories have provided avenues for writers to delve into the emotional, psychological, and socio-cultural dimensions of partition. Through their narratives, authors have explored themes of identity, displacement, loss, communal violence, and the quest for belonging.
Although the bequest of the Partition is palpable in episodes of religious tension, discourses on minority belonging, secularism, nation and nationalism in India, critical exploration of the phenomenon as a tension-ridden historical episode has largely been restricted.
- Dr. Barnali Saha
Jun 25, 2020 · The carving out of two new territorial states, the departure of the British, the mass movement and unfathomable violence, and the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states comprise what is known as the Partition.
- Ted Svensson
- 2021
Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta (2009) argued that there is a lack of “critical engagement” (xi) with Bengal’s Partition literature in comparison to that from Punjab. This section aims to fill this lacuna by delineating the Partition through a Bengali perspective.
- Bhawana Jain
- 2021
Jul 29, 2021 · This research is part of a five-year project on cultural memories of Partition funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Launched in October 2017, the project explores the circulation of memories of Partition, decolonisation and migration within British Asian communities in London and Loughborough.
Dec 6, 2017 · If the history of women is revealed in the popular memory of Partition explored in the historical material presented by Kamla Bhasin and Ritu Menon, how is this memory expressed in literature, which remains subservient to a masculine narrative of Partition?
