Remnants of separation book5/30/2023 ![]() 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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