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Postmemory and the Partition of India

Learning to Remember

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Authors:
  1. Shuchi Kapila

    1. English Department, Grinnell College, Grinnell, USA

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  • Examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947
  • Uses ethnographic and oral history methods to make meaning of the impact of partition events
  • Argues for particular consideration of women, who were especially vulnerable to suffering during and after partition

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. “Learning to Remember: The Indian Partition of 1947”

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 1-26

  3. Partition Postmemory: “Someone Should Know”

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 27-48

  4. Hospitality and Loss: “Talking About My Heart”

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 49-76

  5. Nostalgia: Re-witnessing ‘Home’

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 77-96

  6. Collecting Memory: The 1947 Berkeley Partition Archive

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 97-116

  7. Preserving Memory? The Partition Museum in Amritsar

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 117-138

  8. Conclusion: Retelling South Asian Stories, Magar Pyaar Se (with Love)

    • Shuchi Kapila
    Pages 139-146

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 147-149
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About this book

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

Authors and Affiliations

  • English Department, Grinnell College, Grinnell, USA

    Shuchi Kapila

About the author

Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Postmemory and the Partition of India

  • Book Subtitle: Learning to Remember

  • Authors: Shuchi Kapila

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43397-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43396-2Published: 14 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43399-3Due: 14 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43397-9Published: 13 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6257

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 149

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Memory Studies, History of South Asia, Imperialism and Colonialism, Ethnography

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