Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory by Aanchal Malhotra

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

Aanchal Malhotra

456 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced

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"A well-researched and richly readable book." (Ramachandra Guha)Seventy years have passed since the Partition, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement...

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relaxing 4%

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