We Left Our Keys with Our Neighbours: Memory and the Search for Meaning in Post-Partitioned India

In mainstream Indian and Pakistani nationalist master-narratives, Partition is a contested terrain. For India, it signifies independence and the end-note of a non-violent anti-colonial movement; for Pakistan, it embodies freedom from both British and Hindu domination and the creation of a homeland f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nair, Neeti
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Inter-University Committee on International Migration 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97627