TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malhotra, Aanchal.
TI  - Remnants of a Separation: a history of the partition through material memory
SN  - 978-93-5302-295-2
U1  - 954.04 
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - Essays
KW  - History
KW  - Indian History
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Partition
N2  - A string of pearls gifted by a maharaja, carried from Dalhousie to Lahore, reveals the grandeur of a life that once was. A notebook of poems, brought from Lahore to Kalyan, shows one woman's determination to pursue the written word despite the turmoil around her. A refugee certificate created in Calcutta evokes in a daughter the feelings of displacement her father had experienced upon leaving Mymensingh zila, now in Bangladesh.   Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, Remnants of a Separation is the product of years of passionate research. It is an alternative history of the Partition -- the first and only one told through material memory that makes the event tangible even seven decades later
ER  -