The interviews explore experiences from the time of partition: from the suddenness of uprooting and the belief that the migration was only to be temporary to the enduring sense that the violence was politically and not culturally or religiously motivated. Issues raised include: the abduction and rehabilitation of women and children; the differing experiences of elite and subaltern classes; the memories of refugee convoys and camps; the hazards of border crossing; and the nostalgia for pre-Partition bonds between Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus.
264 pages | halftones | 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 | © 2006
History: Asian History
Political Science: Race and Politics
Table of Contents
Interviews
1. The Abduction and Rehabilitation of Women and Children, and Related Issues
2. An Aristocratic Family´s Experience of Partition and the Arya Samaj
3. Migration from the Last Sikh Village in the Chenab Canal Colony
4. The Experiences of a Ninety-three-year-old Man from Sialkot
5. A Clerk Flees Lahore Under Gurkha Escort
6. From D.A.V. College, Lahore, to Khalsa College, Amritsar
7. Strong Bonds Between Sikh and Muslim Villagers in District Sialkot
8. On Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindu ‘Imperialism’
9. The Experience of Forced Migration for the Rich and the Influential
10. A 1948 Sikh Migrant from Jammu & Kashmir
11. The Partition Memories of an Eminent Educationist from the Ramgarhia Sikh Community
12. Radical Dislocation from Muzaffargarh and Relative Poverty in Amritsar
13. The Massacre of Sikh Women by Their Own Families
14. Escape Without Injury from the NWFP to Amritsar
15. Memories of Life in a Refugee Camp
16. A Haveli Becomes a Sikh Fortress
17. A Granthi Narrates Exactly What Happened in a Refugee Convoy
18. A Lahore Sikh Delegation Meets Sardar Patel in August 1947
19. A Rare, Uneventful Crossing from Pakistan to India
20. A Christian Preacher´s Experience of Partition
21. An Upper-class Army Doctor´s Recollections of Partition
22. A Secular Schoolteacher and Educationist´s Nostalgia for His Pre-Partition Homeland
23. From Prosperity to Destitution: A Village Woman´s Nightmare Journey Through the Partition Riots
24. A Landed Farmer, Wounded and Reduced to Penury by Partition
25. An Arya Samaji Philanthropist and Original Amritsar Resident´s Memories of 1947
A Select Annotated Bibliography
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