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PARTITION'S POST-AMNESIAS: 1947, 1971 AND MODERN SOUTH ASIA
Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Rs 475 Hb 2013
978-81-88965-77-9
(Bangladeshi rights sold. All others available.)
The Partition of British India in 1947 into the new nations of India and Pakistan, and the transformation of East Pakistan into a third nation, Bangladesh, in 1971, were events marked by violence, displacements and multiple alienations.

In her brilliant new book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir discusses their impact three decades later, on contemporary cultural producers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Literary texts, archaeological digs, photographs, maps and other memorabilia are woven together to present a groundbreaking consideration of Partition.

Kabir's account departs from previous Partition scholarship by arguing for 1947 and 1971 as linked epochal events; by excavating the connections between violence, memory, melancholia and modernity; and by dialoguing with recent developments in Holocaust Studies to bring considerations of family, inter-generational dialogue, and subjectivity to a new memory studies of South Asia.

  ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR
is Professor of English Literature, King's College, London. She is the author of Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir.
 
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