Oral History Workshop

Learn to collect community stories

The collected digital works will be made available for educational purposes to academic researchers, artists, humanistic practitioners and students. Stay tuned for more information or contact us to learn more. Interviews are conducted in the language that the interviewee is most comfortable with, such as English, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Sindhi, Kashmiri among others. The 1947 Partition Archive is a non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to institutionalizing the people’s history of Partition through:

Preserving partition

By sean patrick farrell AND SOMINI SENGUPTA

A note on the urgency to collect stories

As another year unfolds, memories of Partition float further back in time. Many thousands risk disappearing forever this year, leaving unfilled gaps in the collective memory of our cultural inheritance. Join us as we work to preserve our remaining history. Collect Stories with us! Become a Citizen Historian. It’s a deeply enriching experience… Meet incredible personalities. Listen to amazing stories. Feel connected. Be transported back in time to a different world. To become a Citizen Historian, you must successfully complete and submit an oral history interview within one month of completing an Oral History Workshop. As a Citizen Historian, you will gain permanent access to the Citizen Historian portal online, as well as access to Citizen Historian discussion groups online, and a number of other opportunities within The Archive. Becoming a Citizen Historian is also a prerequisite to applying for our Story Scholars program. Please contact us if you have any questions! Send an email to [email protected]  