{"product_id":"violence-martyrdom-and-partition-a-daughters-testimony","title":"Violence, Martyrdom And Partition  -  A Daughter's Testimony","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Nonica Datta\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2012\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 235\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780198083993\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (1914–2003), the woman head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to women’s education in rural north India. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubhashini’s narrative unfolds a story, within a sea of stories, which has remained silent in the dominant historical discourse. Her memory evokes contrasting images of violence, martyrdom and Partition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot 1947 but 1942—the year of her father’s ‘martyrdom’—is recalled as a violent rupture in her memory. Partition is a moment of celebration, revenge, divine retribution, empathy, remorse, tragedy and fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslating Subhashini’s oral testimony, Nonica Datta recreates the memory of a colonial subject, living in postcolonial times, as a historical narrative. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving beyond a historical event and well-established historical facts, Violence, Martyrdom and Partition is a parallel History of events and non-events, memory and history, testimony and experience.Breaking the silence of an oral testimony and presenting memory as history, this work opens up the historians’ territory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis testimony defies the opposition between subject and agent, victim and victimizer, witness and survivor, aggressor and spectator, perpetrator and bystander. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubhashini’s candid, repetitive narrative suggests a remarkable interplay of individual and collective remembrance, and reveals the shifts, ambiguities, silences and contradictions in an individual memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Highly Readable and novel work, this book will be of interest to historians, sociologists. anthropologists, literary scholars, and those engaged with culture and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introducing Subhashini\u003cbr\u003e2. A Daughter's Testimony :\u003cbr\u003ePart I : A Pitch Dark Night\u003cbr\u003ePart II : Pitaji ka Balidan\u003cbr\u003ePart III : The Vultures Ruled\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Nonica Datta \/ Oxford University Press \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153730859376,"sku":"32700","price":27.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/32700.jpg?v=1793913283","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/violence-martyrdom-and-partition-a-daughters-testimony","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}