The Partitions of Memory

Author: Suvier KauPublisher: Permanent BlackYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 301ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178240130 DescriptionImaginatively written and grounded in painstaking scholarship, this book will stimulate great interest in Partition and India's recent history. As nuclear bombs erupted under the ground in Pokharan in 1998, the earth and stones ironically melted and merged below the barbed wire that separates India from Pakistan. Echoes of the Partition of India can be heard to this day in the daily life of the subcontinent - each time India and Pakistan play a cricket match, or when their political leaders talk of 'unfinished business'. Sikhs who had to live through the pogrom following Indira Gandhi's assassination recall Partition, as do slum-dwelling Bengalis being forced to return to Bangladesh. The essays in this book suggest ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unraveled. Two of them deal with culture and history in what is now a part of Pakistan. O