![]() ![]() They now speak of their owners pasts and emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. ![]() These objects absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. ![]() Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through such objects carried across the border. This led her to search for the belongings of other migrants to discover the stories hidden in them. Despite being born into a family affected by the Divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition until she encountered objects that had once belonged to her ancestors in an Undivided India.Ī gaz, a ghara, a maang-tikka, a pocketknife, a peacock-shaped bracelet, and a set of kitchen utensils: these were what accompanied her great-grandparents as they fled their homes, and through them she learnt of their migration and life before the Divide. Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement that shaped the contemporary history of the subcontinent. A well-researched and richly readable book RAMACHANDRA GUHA SEVENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE PARTITION, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. ![]()
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