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.