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Aanchal Malhotra
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India
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Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
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published
2018
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9 editions
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“Memory dilutes, but the object remains unaltered.”
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever”
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders, ethnicity and nationality. In fact, through their stories, I imagined it as a land with mango orchards, joint families, village settlements, endless lengths of ancestral fields extending into the horizon, and quaint local bazaars teeming with excitement on festive days. As a result, the history of my grandparents’ early lives in what became Pakistan essentially came across as a very idyllic, somewhat rural, version of happiness.”
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