About the Book: Narrating South Asian Partition
The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a
country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya
Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for
the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal moment
in time. Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120
individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each
reflecting on a direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani
partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri
is able to place them into comparison with the literary,