Home, Uprooted : : Oral Histories of India's Partition / / Devika Chawla.
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that followed. These riots resul...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Beginnings—in Headnotes
- 2. Fieldwork/Homework
- 3. A Story Travels
- 4. Home Outside Home
- 5. Adrift: Reluctant Nomads
- 6. Hearth Crossings
- 7. Remnants
- 8. My Father, My Interlocutor
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index