partition

India’s Partition: Back to Midnight

Anjuli Kaul

A dramatic new study of Partition and a valuable anthology from the scene of the historic divide

An Absent Memory of a Community

In her book, Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland, Saaz Agarwal explores why the region continues to remain a collective blind spot of Partition, even for Sindhis who fled to India and then tried to erase it from memory. An extract:

Rabba Hun Kee Kariye

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Could it be that 62 years on, the scars of the Partition violence have still not healed because there is so little voluntary admission of guilt, so much glorified victimhood? Here’s a narrative finally that trains its gaze at the perpetrators.

It Was Neither Nehru Nor Jinnah

Ninad D. Sheth

Neither had the power to set the agenda for the Partition. The blame lies squarely with the British empire and its representative at the time—Mountbatten.