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245 | 1 | 0 | ▼aHome, uprooted :▼boral histories of India's partition /▼cDevika Chawla.▲ |
260 | ▼aNew York :▼bFordham University Press,▼c2014.▲ | ||
300 | ▼ax, 273 p. ;▼c23 cm.▲ | ||
504 | ▼aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.▲ | ||
504 | ▼aIncludes bibliographical references and index.▲ | ||
505 | ▼aList 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.▲ | ||
520 | ▼a"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 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims and the displacement of about 20 million persons on both sides of the border. This watershed socioeconomic-geopolitical moment cast an enduring shadow on India's relationship with neighboring Pakistan. Presenting a perspective of the middle-class refugees who were forced from their homes, jobs, and lives with the withdrawal of British rule in India, Home, Uprooted delves into the lives of forty-five Partition refugees and their descendants to show how this epochal event continues to shape their lives. Exploring the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition--ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi, Home, Uprooted melds oral histories with a fresh perspective on current literature to unravel the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of the participants. Author Devika Chawla argues that the ways in which her participants imagine, recollect, memorialize, or "abandon" home in their everyday narratives give us unique insights into how refugee identities are constituted. These stories reveal how migrations are enacted and what home--in its sense, absence, and presence--can mean for displaced populations. Written in an accessible and experimental style that blends biography, autobiography, essay, and performative writing, Home, Uprooted folds in field narratives with Chawla's own family history, which was also shaped by the Partition event and her self-propelled migration to North America. In contemplating and living their stories of home, she attempts to show how her own ancestral legacies of Partition displacement bear relief. Home--how we experience it and what it says about the "selves" we come to occupy--is a crucial question of our contemporary moment. Home, Uprooted delivers a unique and poignant perspective on this timely question. This compilation of stories offers an iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what "home" means to displaced populations"--▼cProvided by publisher.▲ | ||
650 | 0 | ▼aRefugees▼zIndia▼vBiography.▲ | |
651 | 0 | ▼aIndia▼xHistory▼yPartition, 1947▼vPersonal narratives.▲ | |
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Home, uprooted :oral histories of India's partition
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Home, uprooted : oral histories of India's partition / Devika Chawla.
개인저자
발행사항
New York : Fordham University Press , 2014.
형태사항
x, 273 p. ; 23 cm.
서지주기
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기
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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
요약주기
"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 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims and the displacement of about 20 million persons on both sides of the border. This watershed socioeconomic-geopolitical moment cast an enduring shadow on India's relationship with neighboring Pakistan. Presenting a perspective of the middle-class refugees who were forced from their homes, jobs, and lives with the withdrawal of British rule in India, Home, Uprooted delves into the lives of forty-five Partition refugees and their descendants to show how this epochal event continues to shape their lives. Exploring the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition--ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi, Home, Uprooted melds oral histories with a fresh perspective on current literature to unravel the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of the participants. Author Devika Chawla argues that the ways in which her participants imagine, recollect, memorialize, or "abandon" home in their everyday narratives give us unique insights into how refugee identities are constituted. These stories reveal how migrations are enacted and what home--in its sense, absence, and presence--can mean for displaced populations. Written in an accessible and experimental style that blends biography, autobiography, essay, and performative writing, Home, Uprooted folds in field narratives with Chawla's own family history, which was also shaped by the Partition event and her self-propelled migration to North America. In contemplating and living their stories of home, she attempts to show how her own ancestral legacies of Partition displacement bear relief. Home--how we experience it and what it says about the "selves" we come to occupy--is a crucial question of our contemporary moment. Home, Uprooted delivers a unique and poignant perspective on this timely question. This compilation of stories offers an iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what "home" means to displaced populations"-- Provided by publisher.
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9780823256433 (hardback) 9780823256440 (paper)
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954.042 C512h
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