Paper IV: Selected Non-Fictional Writings on India’s Partition

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (C)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

Memory Studies: The South Asian Context

  • Erll, Astrid. “Traumatic Pasts, Literary Afterlives, and Transcultural Memory: New Directions of Literary and Media Memory Studies.” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 3:1 (2011).

 

  • Dubey, Isha. “Remembering, Forgetting and Memorialising: 1947, 1971 and the State of Memory Studies in South Asia.” India Review, 20:5 (2021), 510-39.

 

Unit II: 
Unit II

Memory and History: The Transcultural Turn

  • Carrier, Peter, and Kobi Kabalek. “Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory – a Conceptual Analysis.” The Transcultural Turn (2014), 39–60.

 

  • Graves, Matthew, and Elizabeth Rechniewski. “From Collective Memory to Transcultural Remembrance.” Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 7:1 (2010), 2-15.

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Nation and Narration: Remembrance and Representation

  • Bernard, Anna. “Forms of Memory: Partition as a Literary Paradigm.” Journal of Comparative Poetics (2018), No. 30, 9-33.

 

  • Robinson, Alan. “The Narrative Turn in History” in Narrating the Past. Palgrave Macmillan (2022), 3-24.

 

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Selected Works by Aanchal Malhotra

  • Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (2017)
  • In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (2022)

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Selected Works by Kavita Puri and Suchitra Vijayan

  • Kavita Puri’s Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (2019)
  • Suchitra Vijayan’s Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (2021)

 

Source Books: 

‌Bagchi, Jasodhara, and Subhoranjan Dasgupta. The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India. 2 vols. Stree, 2009.

Basu, Aparna. “Book Review: Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin’s Borders and Boundaries.” India Today, 15 Mar. 2013,

Bhalla, Alok, ed. Stories about the Partition of India. Vols. 1 & 2, Indus, 1994.

Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Penguin, 1998.

---. Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir. Zubaan, 2002.

---. The Persistence of Memory. Harper Collins, 2015.

Choudhury, Samrat. “Interview: Aanchal Malhotra, Author, In the Language of Remembering.” Hindustan Times, 8 July 2022,

Dalrymple, William. 2015. “The Great Divide: The Violent Legacy of Indian Partition.” The New Yorker, June 22.

Datta, Sudipta. “Sudipta Datta Reviews Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India, by Suchitra Vijayan.” The Hindu, 6 Mar. 2021.

 

Desai, Ketaki. “Like Me, Many Partition Descendants Long to Witness Their Place of Origin, says Author Aanchal Malhotra.” The Times of India, 8 May 2022.

Ellis-Petersen, Hannah, and Aakash Hassan. ““Finally We Are Together”: Partition’s Broken Families Reunite after Seven Decades.” The Guardian, 14 Aug. 2022.

Ghosh, Bishwanath. “Bishwanath Ghosh Reviews Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri.” The Hindu, 24 Aug. 2019.

‌Kamakshi Ayyar, and Abhishyant Kidangoor. “How the Memory of India’s Traumatic Partition is being Preserved Across Borders.” Time, 15 Aug. 2018.

Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale UP, 2017.

Kothari, Rita. Unbordered Memories: Partition Stories from Sindh. Penguin, 2009.

Malreddy, Pavan “Memory Studies: Review of Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels.” Academia.edu,  2020.

Menon, Ritu, and Kamla Bhasin. Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition. Rutgers UP, 1998.

Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali. Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence. Routledge, 2017.

Nair, Neeti. Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India. Harvard UP, 2011.

Onega, Susana, Constanza Del Río, and Maite Escudero-Alías, eds. Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature. Springer International Publishing, 2017.

Pandey, Gyanendra. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. CUP, 2004.

Paul Kumar, Sukrita. “Nostalgia Compensates for a Lost World.” The Hindu, 2 Mar. 2010.

Shukla, Nikesh. “Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri, Review – Humane and Important.” The Guardian, 16 July 2019.

 

Singh, Amritjit, et al. Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Thompson, E.P. 1966. “History from Below.” Times Literary Supplement 7 April: 279-80.

Wadhwa, Soni. Rev. of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan. Asian Review of Books, 6 May 2021.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023