This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

Examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 Uses ethnographic and oral history methods to make meaning of the impact of partition events Argues for particular consideration of women, who were especially vulnerable to suffering during and after partition

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Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.

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1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia..- 5.Collecting Memory.- 6.Preserving Memory.- Conclusion