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Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On
Editors: Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengupta
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NEW BOOK INFORMATION
Looking Back:
The 1947 Partition of India, 70 Years On
Editors: Rakhshanda Jalil, Tarun K. Saint and Debjani Sengup
Page Ext: 396; Price: Rs 1095/-; ISBN: 978-93-86689-56-6; Binding: Hardback
Rights: World
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The Book
While discourse on the Partition, especially through literary representations, has changed radically, it is time to revisit it from a third and perhaps fourth-generation point of view. On the 70th anniversary of India’s Independence and Partition, this anthology of diverse narratives collects fresh reflections on the continuing relevance and impact of 1947, and its afterlife, in South Asia.
In what ways can we re-think and re-imagine 1947 today, in 2017? Has the subcontinent worked through its burden of history and trauma relayed across generations? Or are we still trapped by the curse of mutual animosity, incoherence and distrust? Are there routes beyond polarised perceptions and attitudes that wait to be (re-)discovered?
Earlier Partition anthologies have underplayed the narratives of the aged, of marginal castes and tribes who may have experienced 1947 differently. The genres of poetry, drama and reportage have likewise not been collected and read as a whole. This anthology—of essays, memoirs, art, short fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, reportage and drama—seeks to rectify these omissions in a manner that is both self-reflexive and historically aware. It also features fresh translations—from Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Bangla—of older, lesser-known works together with new writing that narrates unheard and forgotten stories. In times when India-Pakistan relations are fraught, when we remain as divided by religion as by how we imagine the nation, this is an effort to cast new light on our fractured and conjoined past and to help us reflect on it with humanity.
The volume would be an asset to students and scholars of South Asian literature and history.
The Editors
Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic, translator and literary historian.
Tarun K. Saint is an independent scholar.
Debjani Sengupta teaches at Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University.
Contents
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Tarun K. Saint, Rakhshanda
Jalil, and Debjani Sengupta
ESSAYS AND STUDIES
1. Cabinet Mission Reconsidered
Anil Nauriya
2. In
Other Words
Sameer Thomas
3. Partition and Dalit Politics: The Figure of Jogendra Nath Mandal
Anwesha Sengupta
4.
A Sepia-Toned Past: A Photo Album Travels from Maghiana to Delhi
Aanchal Malhotra
5. History, Memory, Genre: A Critical Reading of I Too Have Seen Lahore
and Milne Do
from the anthology This Side That
Side
Kajal Tehri and Asmat Jahan
6. Photo-framed Installations: Second and Third Generation Narratives about the Partition and the Holocaust
Margit Köves
7. Undoing Partition: Flight of Utopian Fantasies across Borders
Ravikant
8. Twins, But not
Identical: Music in India and Pakistan
Vidya Rao
9. Scripting an Enclave’s Marginal Lives: Selina Hossain’s Bhumi O Kusum
Debjani Sengupta
10. The Absent Presence: The Partition in Modern Urdu Poetry
Rakhshanda Jalil
11. Spaced: Notes towards an Exhibition
Salima Hashmi
MEMOIRS
12. Inheriting the Hamam-dasta and its Stories
Maya Mirchandani
13. The Sixth River: A Journal from the Time of the Partition of
India
Fikr Taunsvi
Translated from the Urdu Chhata Dariya, by Maaz Bin Bilal
14. Dandakaranya: Some Memories in Words
Saibal Kumar Gupta
15. Orality of Silence
Manas Ray
16. Lahore Reporting
Vishwajyoti Ghosh
FICTION
17. Of Lost Stories
Anwar Ali
Translated from the Punjabi novel Gwacchiyan Gallan, to Urdu by Julien Columeau,
and translated from the Urdu by Farha Noor
18. People of God
Gurmukh Singh Musafir
Translated from the Punjabi short story Allah Wale, by Hina Nandrajog
19. Nothing but the Truth
Meera Sikri
Translated from the Hindi short story Saccho Sach, by Tarun K. Saint
20. The Other Shore
Syed Muhammad Ashraf
Translated from the Urdu short story Doosra Kinara, by Rakhshanda Jalil
21. The Echo
Zakia Mashhadi
Translated from the Urdu short story Sada-e Baazgasht, by Zakia Mashhadi
22. God is Great
Amena Nazli
Translated from the Urdu short story Allah-ho Akbar, by Asif Farrukhi
23. A Face to Hate
Joya Mitra
Translated from the Bangla short story Ghrinar Samasya, by Joya Mitra
24. Border
Stories
Sunanda Bhattacharya
Translated from the Bangla short story from Tripura, Borderer Golpo, by Debjani Sengupta
25. Lost and Found
Jhumur Pandey
Translated from the Bangla short story from Assam, Mokkhodasundorir Haranoprapti,
by Farha Noor and Debjani Sengupta
26. The Return
Selina Hossain
Translated from the Bangla short story from Bangladesh, Meyetir Bari Phera,
by Nabina Das and Debjani Sengupta
POETRY
27. After Death: Twenty Years
Birendra Chattopadhyay
Translated from the Bangla Mrityur Por: Kuri Bochhor, by Debjani
Sengupta
28. Rehabilitation
Shankha Ghosh
Translated from the Bangla Punorbashon, by Shankha Ghosh and Debjani Sengupta
29. Twenty-sixth January
Sahir Ludhianvi
Translated from the Urdu Chhabbees Janwary, by Rakhshanda Jalil
30. After the Riot
Javed Akhtar
Translated from the Urdu Fasaad ke Baad, by Rakhshanda Jalil
31. Six Shared Seasons
Kaiser Haq
32. Cold Storage
Sukrita Paul Kumar
33. Cyril’s Map
Tarun K.
Saint
DRAMA
34. Those Who Haven’t Seen Lahore Haven’t Lived
Asghar Wajahat
Translated from the Hindi Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jamyai Nai, by Alok Bhalla
INTERVIEW
35. The Last Conversation
Intizar Husain
in conversation with Nasir Kazmi
Translated from the Urdu, by Asif Aslam Farrukhi
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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