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Material Memorabilia!
Despite being born into a family affected
by the Divide, Aanchal Malhotra had thought little about the Partition –
until she encountered objects that had once belonged
to her ancestors in an Undivided India. A 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. This led her to search for the belongings
of other migrants to discover the stories hidden in them. That speak of
their owners’ pasts and emerge as testaments to the struggle,
sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history.
Written as a crossover between history and anthropology,
‘Remnants of a Separation’ tells
stories from both sides
of the border and is the product of years of painstaking
and passionate research. Join us in conversation with the
author herself as she shares her journey with us.
Aanchal Malhotra is an artist and oral
historian working with memory and material culture. She is the co-founder
of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of
material culture from the Indian subcontinent, tracing family
histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects
of antiquity. She currently lives in New Delhi and this is her first
book.
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