The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it is still widely seen as a process of singular distress and sorrow. Yet, for those in the subcontinent, the Partition also offers a process of self-exploration for subsequent generations. This book is the first collection of chapters related to the Partition studies wherein experts of various disciplines from the three major modern nation-states affected by this cataclysm - Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - have closely collaborated to develop a nuanced assessment of the Partition as active in the present. The book casts a somber yet uplifting light on the enormous challenges the Partition imposed on societies struggling to emerge from generations of colonial rule into a post-war world depleted of resources and a future of uncertain prospects.
Edited by:
Jennifer Leaning,
Shubhangi Bhadada
Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 139mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9789354792908
ISBN 10: 9354792901
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 17 August 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Jennifer Leaning, Shubhangi Bhadada, and Meena Hewett PART I: Migration and Relief in the 1947 Partition of British India The 1947 Humanitarian Response to Partition in the Punjab - Jennifer Leaning The Role of Social Networks in the Process of Migration during the 1947 Partition - Shubhangi Bhadada, Tiara Bhatacharya, Tarun Khanna, and Karim Lakhani How Women Negotiated Gendered Relief and Rehabilitation in Post-Partition West Bengal - Rimple Mehta PART II: Memories of Partition Crowdsourcing Memories: Process of Narrative Collection of the Survivors of Partition - Tarun Khanna, Karim Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Sanjay Kumar, Mariam Chughtai, Ornob Alam, and Ruihan Wang The Impact of Partition on East Pakistan: Toward a More Nuanced Central Narrative - Ornob Alam, Rita Yusuf, and Omar Rahman Rural Kammis of Punjab in the Partition Plan - Navsharan Singh “This Time Will Surely Pass”: Stories of Border Crossings in 1947 - Uma Chakravarti PART III: Cities, Art, and Architecture Camp to Nagar: Impacts of the Partition on Urbanization in India and Pakistan - Rahul Mehrotra and Diane Athaide Men, Monuments, and Memoirs: Reclaiming Sites of the Indian Independence Movement in Lahore - Nadhra Shahbaz Khan Tilting at Thresholds: Partition in Modern versus Contemporary South Asian Art and Exhibitions - Zehra Jumabhoy Conclusion: Memory as an Organizing Construct for Interdisciplinary Scholarship of the 1947 Partition - Tarun Khanna Index
Dr. Jennifer Leaning is Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and retired Professor of the Practice at Harvard School of Public Health. As associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, she is a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served as the director of the Harvard FXB Center from January 1, 2010 until September 1, 2018. Prior to her appointment in 2010, Dr. Leaning served for five years as co-founder and co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Her research interests focus on issues of public health and international law in response to war and disaster, early warning for mass atrocities, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. She has field experience in assessment of issues of public health, human rights, and international humanitarian law in a range of crisis situations (including Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Kosovo, the Middle East, Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, Somalia, the Chad-Darfur border, and the African Great Lakes area). She has published widely on these topics and submitted reports and policy briefings to US and UN agencies, the International Criminal Court, and major NGOs. She was the founding editor of the journal Medicine and Global Survival from 1993-2002 and is the lead editor of two books, one on nuclear war and the other on humanitarian crises. Shubhangi Bhadada is the Mittal Institute Fellow at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. She is also the Project Director of the Lancet Citizens' Commission on Reimagining India's Health System. Her research interests focus on issues of international human rights, international humanitarian law, refugees and migration, and public health. She has previously worked at Vidhi Center for Legal Policy, a governance think-tank in New Delhi, L&L Partners, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. She has been a Fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School and has consulted with Human Rights Watch and International Corporate Accountability Roundtable. She has a B.A. LLB (Hons.) degree from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, BCL from University of Oxford, and an LLM from Harvard Law School with a concentration in international human rights.
