{"product_id":"epicentre-of-violence-partition-voices-and-memories-from-amritsar","title":"Epicentre of Violence - Partition Voices and Memories from Amritsar","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ian Talbot\u003cbr\u003eDarshan Singh Tatla\/\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/Editor: Ian Talbot \/ Darshan Singh Tatla\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Permanent Black\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 234\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8178241315\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough twenty-five first-hand accounts of those caught in the turmoil of Partition, this book provides us with a means to understanding the human dimension of the division of India in 1947. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe interviews in this book were conducted in what was, in 1947, the epicenter of violence: the city of Amritsar, on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. The links of those interviewed with a single city provide unique insights into processes of migration and refugee resettlement, and lend a unity to the recollections that is rare in Partition literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven as each account possesses unique characteristics, various themes unite the oral testimonies-the suddenness of the uprooting, the belief that migration was only to be temporary, the sense that the violence was politically rather than culturally and religiously rooted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe abduction and rehabilitation of women and children, the differing experiences of elite and subaltern classes, the memories of refugee convoys and camps, the hazards of border crossing, and the nostalgia for pre-Partition bonds between Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus are other important issues that emerge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe variety of experiences recounted here is historically important as it reveals the immensely differing impact of Partition and its consequences for people’s later lives. This discomfiting fact has frequently been obscured by master narratives of the event-an event which continues to exert a profound impact on the subcontinent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.       The Abduction and Rehabilitation of Women and Children, and Related Issues\u003cbr\u003e2.       An Aristocratic Family’s Experience of Partition and the Arya Samaj\u003cbr\u003e3.       Migration from the Last Sikh Village in the Chenab Canal Colony\u003cbr\u003e4.       The Experiences of a Ninety-three-year-old Man from Sialkot\u003cbr\u003e5.       A Clerk Flees Lahore Under Gurkha Escort\u003cbr\u003e6.       From D.A.V. College, Lahore, to Khalsa College, Amritsar\u003cbr\u003e7.       Strong Bonds Between Sikh and Muslim villagers in District Sialkot\u003cbr\u003e8.       On Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindu ‘Imperialism’ \u003cbr\u003e9.       The Experience of Forced Migration for the Rich and the Influential\u003cbr\u003e10.    A 1948 Sikh Migrant from Jammu and Kashmir \u003cbr\u003e11.    The Partition Memories of an Eminent Educationist from the Ramgarhia Sikh Community\u003cbr\u003e12.    Radical Dislocation from Muzaffargarh and Relative Poverty in Amritsar\u003cbr\u003e13.    The Massacre of Sikh Women by their Own Families \u003cbr\u003e14.    Escape Without Injury from the NWFP to Amritsar\u003cbr\u003e15.    Memories of Life in a Refugee Camp\u003cbr\u003e16.    A Haveli Becomes a Sikh Fortress\u003cbr\u003e17.    A Granthi Narrates Exactly What Happened in a Refugee Convoy\u003cbr\u003e18.    A Lahore Sikh Delegation Meets Sardar Patel in August 1947\u003cbr\u003e19.    A Rare, Uneventful Crossing for Pakistan to India \u003cbr\u003e20.    A Christian Preacher’s Experience of Partition\u003cbr\u003e21.    An Upper-class Army Doctor’s Recollections of Partition \u003cbr\u003e22.    A Secular Schoolteacher and Educationist’s Nostalgia for His Pre-Partition Homeland\u003cbr\u003e23.    From Prosperity to Destitution-A Village Woman’s Nightmare Journey Through the Partition Riots\u003cbr\u003e24.    A Landed Farmer, Wounded and Reduced to Penury by Partition\u003cbr\u003e25.    An Arya Samaji Philanthropist and Original amritsar Resident’s Memories of 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Partition of India: A Select Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ian Talbot \/ Permanent Black \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153524093296,"sku":"19420","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/19420.jpg?v=1793910674","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/epicentre-of-violence-partition-voices-and-memories-from-amritsar","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}