Postmemory and the Partition of India

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Postmemory and the Partition of India is written by Shuchi Kapila and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031433971 (ISBN 10) and 9783031433979 (ISBN 13).

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.