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020			_a978-93-5302-295-2
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041			_aeng
082			_223 _a813.54 _bMALR
100			_aMalhotra Aanchal _913046
245			_aRemnants of a separation _bA history of the patrition through material memory
260			_aNoida _bHarper Collins _c2018
300			_axxvi,433p _bPB _c23x15.5cm.
365			_a4477 _b₹467.22 _c₹ _d₹599.00 _e22% _f18-12-2021
520			_aRemnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through objects that refugees carried with them across the border. These belongings absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. They now speak of their owner's pasts as they emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. string of pearls gifted by a maharaja, carried from Dalhousie to Lahore, reveals the grandeur of a life that once was. A notebook of poems, brought from Lahore to Kalyan, shows one woman's determination to pursue the written word despite the turmoil around her. A refugee certificate created in Calcutta evokes in a daughter the feelings of displacement her father had xperienced upon leaving Mymensingh zila, now in Bangladesh.Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, Remnants of a Separation is the product of years of passionate research. It is an alternative history of the Partition the first and only one told through material memory that makes the event tangible even seven decades later.
650			_aFiction _913047
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