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‘A certain terror’: corporeality and religion in narratives of the 1947 India/Pakistan partition

Author(s): 
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Oral History Forum d'historie Oral
www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/view/647

This article will take as its case study the 1947 India/Pakistan partition, and is based on a large oral history project, which took place over the last five years. In this article, I focus on selected excerpts from some of my interviews, examining the ways in which people describe religious belief, practice, prejudice and violence as corporeal experiences, with markers of religiosity often inscribed on the body. I examine how the corporeality of religious violence was not an aberration from everyday religious practices, but in effect an extension of religion as an embodied entity.

Acts of memory : cultural recall in the present

Mieke Bal
Jonathan Crewe
Leo Spitzer
Dartmouth College Press
1998

Demanding the impossible: exploring the possibilities of a national partition museum in India

Author(s): 
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2012.665233

This article examines what is arguably a paradox: given the unique position held by the events of the 1947 Partition in the collective consciousness of the Indian subcontinent, why is there no national partition museum anywhere in India? The article analyses the possible reasons for this absence, evaluates the arguments for establishing such a museum, and considers what shape it might take.

Beyond Sentimentality: “Tale” of an Alternate Bhadramahila Refugee

Sarbani Banerjee
The Open Humanities Press (OHP)
2018

Unfinished Memoirs

Mujibur Rahman Sheikh
University Press Ltd ,Bangladesh
2013

‘A certain terror’: corporeality and religion in narratives of the 1947 India/Pakistan partition

Anindya Raychaudhuri
Oral History Forum d'historie Oral
2017

The Persistence of Partitions: A Study of the Sindhi Hindus in India

Author(s): 
Rita Kothari
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2011.597597

Abstract: This essay is based on my engagement with the Sindhi-speaking Hindu minority of Sindh that migrated to India in and around 1947, when the province of Sindh became a part of Pakistan. It privileges therefore a specific religious group and its response and negotiation to a specific moment. My current research on Sindhi-speaking Muslims along the border interrogates the classification of ‘Sindhis’ as a spatially fixed identity, and revisits the state-endorsed premises of irrevocability and border-formation.

Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India

Anjali Roy
Routledge
2021

ITIHAS SAMPRADAIKATA O BRAHMANYATANTRA

CHANDRA, PULAK
Dey's Publishing
2015

Genocide in East Pakistan/Bangladesh: A Horror Story. ( Bengali Edition)

Bhattacharyya, S. K.
A Ghosh
1998

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