2017 (7) - Revisiting Partition Seventy Years Later: Of Layered Echoes, Voices and Memories
The FOCUS section of volume 7 is titled "Revisiting Partition Seventy Years Later: Of Layered Echoes, Voices and Memories". The articles in the special issue contribute to the existing historiography on Partition by giving cognizance to experiences of displacement, relocation, trauma, re-shaping of lives as well as their periodic re-telling. They re-turn to oral history as a source that informs the writing of Partition to emphasize the multifarious and fragmented nature of remembrance and testimony. In doing so, they bring forth, and even magnify, the absence of singular narratives while simultaneously puncturing official statist silences on Partition or the inculpating discourses that lay blame on a religious ‘other’. At the same time, the contributions revisit literary works that have been crucial in shedding light on the human dimension of Partition, its deep-felt impact on innumerable partitioned lives. The articles take us through sites ranging from Faqiranwalla, Sheikhpura and Lahore in present day Pakistan to Delhi, Haryana, Dandakaranya, Kolkata and the Andaman Islands in present day India.
The FORUM section consists of eight articles that rely on historical, linguistic, literary and oral history approaches. Among others, they deal with topics as diverse as the perceptions of India in Germany and the USA, countercultures and movements in the Indian and Pakistani public sphere(s), the revival of vernacular languages in transforming social spaces, and the roots of resurgent political authoritarianism in India.
The REVIEW ESSAYS rubric comprises contributions that present overviews of scholarly engagement with the topics of land property rights, transitions from colonial to the national education system and the changing social and professional life-worlds of engineers in India.
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelRevisiting Partition Seventy Years Later Of Layered Echoes, Voices and Memories
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelFrom Mano Majra to Faqiranwalla Revisiting the Train to Pakistan
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelGemeinsamkeit und Trennung in Romanen der Urdu-Schriftstellerin Qurratulain Hyder
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelReframing Partition Memory, Testimony, History
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelIn Search of 'Home' Dandakaranya and the East Bengali Migrants, 1957-1977
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelNarrated Time, Constructed Identities Displaced Hindus after Partition in West Bengal
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelMemories of Partition’s 'Forgotten Episode' Refugee Resettlement in the Andaman Islands
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelAuthoritarian Shadows Indian Independence and the Problem of Democratisation
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelRemembering Ghazi Ilam Din Shaheed The Construction of Memory, Religious Affect and Blasphemy in the Muslim Public Sphere in Colonial Panjab and Contemporary Pakistan
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelThe Marxist Punjabi Movement Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelLanguage Variegation across the Pamir Hindukush-Karakoram
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2018-02-06Zeitschriftenartikel"Forced" Conversion and (Hindu) Women’s Agency in Sindh
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelBetween Protest and Privilege South Asian Religious Signifiers and the US Counterculture
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelJudicial Iconography and Access to Justice in the Bombay High Court
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelEinfach nur wie „ein Fass ohne Boden“? Südasien als Beispiel der globalen Nord-Südwahrnehmung in der BRD
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelThe property puzzle India’s land governance in transition
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelWomen, Early Childhood Education, and Global Reform Movements New Perspectives on Colonial and National Education in India
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2018-02-06ZeitschriftenartikelEngineers and Social Change in Colonial and Postcolonial India Considerations between Recent Literature and Future Research Possibilities