Partition of 1947 - India - Pakistan: Some scattered resources

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The Big March: Migratory Flows After Partition of India by Prashant Bharadwaj, Asim Kwaja and Atif Mian (EPW, August 30, 2008) Book Review: Partition Regrets Partition and the Making of the Mohajir Mindset: A Narrative  by Brigadier AR Siddiqui (Oxord University Press Karachi, 172 pages) by A G Noorani (Frontline, September 12, 2008) Remembering Sylhet: A Forgotten Story of India's 1947 Partition by Anindita Dasgupta (EPW, August 15, 2008) Book Review: Lines that divide peoples' hearts The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts Edited by Smita Tewari Jassal, Eyal Ben–Ari (Sage. Pages 381. Rs.480) by Kanwalpreet (Spectrum, August 3, 2008) Partition as conflict resolution by Rita Manchanda (Himal, June 2008) Metaphor, Memory, Myth: recasting partition as in Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous by Tutun Mukherjee (EPW, May 10, 2008) Book Review: Can Partition be undone? Crisis in the Subcontinent: Partition, Can It Be Undone? by Lal Khan (Wellred Publications, London, 2001 / Lahore 2003 / Aakar Books, Delhi, 2007, pp225) by Ranabir Sammadar (EPW, February 2, 2008) The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (Columbia University Press, October, 2007, Cloth, 304 pages, 25 illus. ISBN: 978-0-231-13846-8) Book Review: The Human Cost The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan (Viking, Penguin, Pages 251) by AG Noorani (Frontline, October 6, 2007) Book Review: Path to Partition - a witness account An American Witness to India's Partition by Phillips Talbot (Sage, Pages 440) by AG Noorani (Frontline, October 6, 2007) The psychiatrist's Partition by Anirudh K Kala, Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain (in Himal, August 2007) A Bloody March in 1947 by Ishtiaq Ahmed (The News, August 18, 2007) Other Travails: Telling the story of the most neglected victims of Partition by  Ramachandra Guha (The Telegraph, August 18, 2007) Would you like to visit Pakistan? by Ravinder Kaur (The Guardian / Comment is Free, August 17, 2007) Sixty years of Partition: Celebration or Lamentation by K Z Islam  (The Daily Star, August 17, 2007) Freedom Came With A Price by Ashis Nandy (The Times of India, August 16, 2007) India and Pakistan: partition lessons by Ravinder Kaur (Open Democracy, August 16, 2007) A 60-year partition of minds by Ayesha Siddiqa and Kuldip Nayar (Rediff.com, August 14, 2007) 60 years of remembering by Pamela Philipose (Indian Express, August 13, 2007) Expatriates question the 1947 partition (in The Times of India, April 16, 2007 ] Book Review: Examining the great divide Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds by Stefano Bianchini, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Rada Ivekovic and Ranabir. Samaddar. Frank Cass, New York (First Indian reprint). Pages 176. by V. N. Datta (The Tribune, April 1, 2007) Book Review: Memory, lived and forgotten Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi by Ravinder Kaur, Oxford University Press, 2007 by Urvashi Butalia (in The Financial Express, April 1, 2007) Partition and the South Asian Diaspora: Extending the Subcontinent by Papiya Ghosh  (Publisher: Routledge India, January 2007, 308pp. [ISBN-10: 0415424097]) Book Review: Divided Memories Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter, edited by Dr Bashabi Fraser - Publisher Anthem, September 2006, ISBN (HB) 1843312255 by Santanu Sanyal (in Business Line, February 2, 2007) "A Tale of Two Cities: The Aftermath of Partition for Lahore and Amritsar 1947–1957" by Ian Talbot (Modern Asian Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, January 2007, pp 151-185) Book Review: Surviving Liberation Torn from the Roots: A Partition Memoir, Kamla Patel, translated by Uma Randeria, Women Unlimited, 2006 by Jyoti Nair Belliappa (in Literary Review / The Hindu, December 3, 2006) Partitions, memories and reconciliation by Satya P. Gautam (Seminar, November 2006) Punjab, partition and Pakistan by Iftikhar H. Malik (Seminar, November 2006) Book Review: Letting Silence Speak Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender and Memory by Jill Didur by Karen Herland (in Concordia Journal, November 9, 2006) Rehearsing the Partition: gendered violence in 'Aur Kitne Tukde' by Jisha Menon (Feminist Review, Volume 84, Number 1, 2006, pp. 29-47(19) ) 'Religious Differences had nothing to do with Partition' by Salil Mishra (Kashmir Times, September 16, 2006) Pakistan scholar attempts to trace origin of Lohani Pathans by Varinder Walia (The Tribune, August 24, 2006) Birth Pangs by Ashis Nandy (The Times of India, August 13, 2006) The Last Journey: Exploring Social Class in the 1947 Partition Migration by Ravinder Kaur (EPW, June 3, 2006) The Historiographical Operation: Memory and History by Ranabir Samaddar (EPW, June 3, 2006) Gendering Oral History of Partition by Anjali Bhardwaj Datta (EPW, June 3, 2006) Book Review: Partitions by Kamleshwar, Penguin, Rs 350 Reviewed by Shams Afif Siddiqi (The Telegraph, May 26, 2006) Book Review: Coming to terms with history Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home by Alok Bhalla, OUP, hardback, p.244, Rs. 395 by Keki N Daruwala (in: Literary Review The Hindu, May 07, 2006) A Train to Karachi -II by Amar Jaleel (in: Magazine Section Dawn, March 12, 2006) Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories by Gyanendra Pandey (Published in 2006 by Stanford University Press / Permanent Black) Manto's Open It: Engendering Partition Narratives by Sarvar V Sherry Chand  (EPW, January 28, 2006) Book Review: Old Maps and New : Legacies of the Partition : A Pakistan Diary by Kavita Panjabi (Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2005 |  ISBN : 8170462223)  by Debali Mookerjea-Leonard (The Book Review, December 2005) "Partition, Migration and Exile: Ritwik Ghatak and the Constitution of the Cinematic Signifier" by Anuradha Ghosh ( a paper presented in the UGC – National Seminar on Diasporic Studies: Theory, Literature and Arts, December 15-16, 2005, held at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.) Book Review: Ongoing History, Continuing Effects by Ramya Sreenivasan (H-Gender-MidEast, January, 2005) Ritu Menon, ed. No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2004. Could Partition have been made less bloody? by Ramachandra Guha (Magazine Section - The Hindu, August 28, 2005) Partition and Many Nationalisms by Nonica Datta [EPW, July 15, 2005] Book Review: Community Problems Life After Partition: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh, 1947-1962 by Sarah Ansari (Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pages: 240, Price: Rs 395) by Tariq Rahman (June 19, 2005) Book Review: Heroines from a Lost Homeland Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal by Gargi Chakravarty - Bluejay Books, New Delhi, 2005, pp 200 by Sumanta Banerjee (EPW, April 23, 2005) "Woman" and "homeland" in Ritwik Ghatak's films: Constructing post-Independence Bengali cultural identity by Erin O'Donnell (Jump Cut, Winter 2005) "Introduction: Mourning and Memory" by Rebecca Saunders and Kamran Aghaie (Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, 2005; 25: 17 - 29) "Gender, Memory, Trauma: Women's Novels on the Partition of India" by Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 177-190) "Generations of Memory: Remembering Partition in India/Pakistan and Israel/Palestine"  by Jonathan D. Greenberg (Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, 2005; 25: 89 - 110) "Quarantined: Women and the Partition" by Debali Mookerjea-Leonard (Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, 2004; 24: 35 - 50) Nostalgia of 'Desh', Memories of Partition by Anasua Basu Raychaudhury (EPW, December 25, 2004) Violence, Displacement and the Issue of Identity -- 1947 (Concurrent Session A-2 | SDPI Conference Islamabad, December 2004) Book Review The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India edited by Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta; published by Stree, Kolkata 2003; pp 272, Rs 500 by Tanika Sarkar (Seminar, December 2004) Book Review: Partition and Its Meanings The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India edited by Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta; published by Stree, Kolkata 2003; pp 272, Rs 500.  by Himani Bannerji (EPW, August 21, 2004) Book Review: The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia. By Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya. Reviewed by Sarah Ansari (Pacific Affairs, Summer 2004, Vol 77, No 2) Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First Person Accounts by Ishtiaq Ahmed (June 2004) Cinema's taboo on partition by Mehboob Khan (BBC, 11 June, 2004) Divided families and the making of nationhood in India and Pakistan, 1947--1965 by Vazira Zamindar, PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2003 Download the dissertation (PDF Format) -- (Only accesible to Columbia affiliates). "The arrival impact of Partition refugees in Uttar Pradesh, 1947-52"  by Yasmin Khan (Contemporary South Asia, 12:4, 2003) Legacy of a Divided Nation: A Book reveiw of 'Witness to Partition: A Memoir by B.R. Nanda' by Arnab Bhattacharya (The Telegraph, November 21, 2003) 'I am Not a Refugee': Rethinking Partition Migration by Md. Mahbubar Rahman and Willem Van Schendel (Modern Asian Studies, 37, 3, 2003, pp.551-584.) Borders and Boundaries in Partition Literature by Shivam Vij (September 2003) Book Review: Pointers to Partition A Narrative of Communal Politics: Uttar Pradesh, 1937-39 by Salil Misra; Sage, New Delhi, 2001; pp 363, Rs 295. by Gyanesh Kudaisya (June 2003) Midnight's Children Humanities Festival - Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: A Tryst with Destiny (March 6 , 2003)  Speaker: Aamir Mufti Speaker: Gyan Pandey Partition: Why shy away from debate? by Dr. Iftikhar H. Malik (August 20, 2002) Social Roots of Partition Process by Ram Puniyani (SACW, February 17, 2002) Partition Revisited - A Letter to the Editor  by Rajindar Sachar (Times of India, January 27, 2003) The Partition debate - I by Mushirul Hasan (The Hindu, January 02, 2002) The Partition debate - II by Mushirul Hasan (The Hindu, January 03, 2002) Memories of a Fragmented Nation: Rewriting the Histories of India's Partition by Mushirul Hasan [N.D.] Moment of Parting  by Dipankar Gupta (The Telegraph, February 4, 2002) The 1947 Partition of India: A Paradigm for Pathological Politics in India and Pakistan by Ishtiaq Ahmed Cripps and India's Partition by A.G. Noorani (Frontline, 20 - August 02, 2002) Cripps and India's Partition-II by A.G. Noorani (Frontline, August 3 - 16, 2002) Misreading Partition Road Signs by Hamza Alavi (November 2002) India and Pakistan,1947-2002 by Gyanendra Pandey (March 2002) [The Introductory Essay] Remembering Partition:Violence, Nationalism an History in India by Gyanendra Pandey Book Review: Retelling History Pangs of Partition, Volume I: The Parting of Ways, and Volume II: The Human Dimension edited by S Settar and Indira Baptista Gupta; Indian Council of Historical Research, Manohar, New Delhi, 2002; pp 368+358, Rs 700 each. by Charu Gupta (April 2002) Porus Border, Divided Selves: A symposium on Partitions in the East (A special issue of Seminar, February 2002) The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary by Lucy Chester (January 2002) Review Article: The Partition of India by A.G. Noorani (December 22, 2001) Les partitions comparées by R. Ivekovic (Actes du VIII ème Congrès de l'Association pour la Recherche InterCulturelle (ARIC) Univ ersité de Genève - 24-28 septembre 2001) India and Partition by Nandini Gooptu [2001] Jinnah: Making a myth by Mubarak Ali Changing Borders, Shifting Loyalties: Religion, Caste and the Partition of Bengal in 1947 by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Memory, History and Fictional Representations of the Partition by Alok Bhalla Partition Memories,'Minorization'and discourses of rootedness in Jharkhand: A comparison of cross border displaced and 'invisible refugees' in Ranchi district by Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff Interrogating Victimhood: East Bengali Refugee Narratives of Communal Violence by Nilanjana Chatterjee [PDF] Sagas of Victory / Memories of Defeat?: The Long Afterlife of an Indo-Muslim Warrior Saint, c. 1033 - 2000 by Shahid Amin [ A Real Video File] - The Persistence of Memory: The Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation by Urvashi Butalia [ A Real Video File] A Finer Balance by Dilip Simeon [ A Real Video File] Bengali State, Nation and Religious Identity: Conflicting Identifications and Multiple Meanings by Shelly Feldman 'Partition of the Indian Subcontinent' Special issue Interventions: International Journal of Post-colonial Studies, Vol 1, No 2, 1999  edited by Ritu Menon The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape, 1947-52 by Joya Chatterji (Modern Asian Studies, January 1999) Nation, Reason and Religion: The Punjab's Role in the Partition of India by Ayesha Jalal (EPW, August 8,1998) "Partition of India and Punjabi Novel"  by Chaman Lal (in 'Partition of India: Literary Responses', Edited by S.R. Chakravarty, Mazhar Hussain. New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1998)         Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India's Partition by Jill Didur (Jouvert, Vol.1, No.2 1997) The Troubled History of Partition by Radha Kumar (Foreign Affairs, January/ February 1997) Secularists, Subalterns and the Stigma of 'Communalism': Partition Historiography Revisited by Ayesha Jalal (Modern Asian Studies, 30, 3 1996, pp.681-737) "Remembered Villages: Representation of Hindu-Bengali Memories in the Aftermath of Partition," by Dipesh Chakrabarty (Economic and Political Weekly, August 10, 1996) Subcontinental Divide: A study of the effects of Partition on India's people. by Akash Kapur History, Nation and Community: Reflections on Nationalist Historiography of India and Pakistan by Rajeev Bhargava Azad Jinnah and Partition [ A review article] by Ayesha Jalal (May 1989) The Legacy Project: Legacy Events Index India - Pakistan Partition The past in the present: India, Pakistan and history by Maruf Khwaja Freedom in an idiom of loss by Jasodhara Bagchi (2002) The Partitions of Memory The Afterlife of the Division of India Edited by Suvir Kaul - See Review article: New perspectives on Partition by Naunidhi Kaur Pakistan or Partition of India by B. R. Ambedkar (1945)

Films: - The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghey Dhaka Tara) Directed by Ritwik Ghatak. 1960, 35mm, b/w, 126 min - Garam Hawa by Directed by MS Sathyu, 1973 (An important film on the Partition of India -1947) [short excerpt on Youtube] - The Division of Hearts (A documentary on Partition by Peter Chappel and Sati Khanna) - Mammo (A valuable film on Partition by Shyam Benegal, 1994/ 130 mins) -  Khamosh Pani (A film by Subiha Sumar) - Earth (A film by Deepa Mehta) - Tamas (A Television series based on the writing of Bhisham Sahni) - Partition (A film by Tariq Ali and McMullen) - Earth (based on Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidwa's Cracking India on the political dynamics of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition) - Karvaan a film by Pankaj Butalia (1999) (A Review of the film Karvaan) - Train to Pakistan - Stories of the Broken Self (a documentary by Furrukh Khan) - Rabba Hun Kee Kariye (Thus Departed our Neighbours) (65') a film by Ajay Bhardwaj on 1947 recounted in countryside Punjab - Partition Footage from CNN: 1.9M/44 sec. QuickTime movie            4M/44 sec. QuickTime movie           - Partition - The Day India Burned (A BBC documentary) - The Sky Below (75') 2006/07, directed by Sara Singh (The India-Pakistan frontier six decades after Partition) - Rabba Hun Kee Kariye (65') 2007, directed by Ajay Bhardwaj (The scars of Partition in Indian Punjab) ______________ Photos: 1. Dividing up a library at the time of 1947 partition [Photo: Life Magazine, August 1947] 2. Emergency trains crowded with desperate refugees 3. Epic misery: Rare photographs of the horrors of India's Partition in 1947 [BBC] Related Reference Materials: Toba Tek Singh A short story by Sadat Hasan Manto Riots: Partition, 1947   by Samarendra Sengupta o o o Migration of the Punjab Families to Pakistan during the Partition of India, 1947 -- A family history website of the Namdar family Partitions Compared and Lessons Learnt: Issues in the Politics of Dialogue and Peace (International Programme for Advance Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l'homme and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris) Partition and Genocide: Manifestation of Violence in Punjab 1937-47. by Anders Bjørn Hansen (Delhi. India Research Press, 2002) Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India Compiled by Vinay Lal Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India's Partition Literatures of Partition Earth: Background to Partition Remembering Partition Oral Archive: India: A People Partitioned No Man's Land: Crossing the Border Between India and Pakistan by Stephen Alter Published by University of Pennsylvania Press (USA) and Penguin Books (India) Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India in the Words and Photos of Margaret Bourke-White. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949 Impact of Partition: Refuges in Pakistan by Amtul Hassan. Manohar. Pages 141. Rs 260 Partition and Genocide: Manifestation of Violence in Punjab 1937-47 by Anders Bjørn Hansen (Delhi. India Research Press, 2002) Bengal Partition Studies OBITUARY A life of commitment: Bhisham Sahni, 1915 - 2003 by Rajendra Sharma

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