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Partition Voices - Untold British Stories (Hardcover)
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Partition Voices - Untold British Stories (Hardcover)
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Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one
of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. Yet their
memory of India's partition has been shrouded in silence. Kavita
Puri's father was twelve when he found himself one of the millions
of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims caught up in the devastating aftermath
of a hastily drawn border. For seventy years he remained silent -
like so many - about the horrors he had seen. When her father
finally spoke out, opening up a forgotten part of Puri's family
history, she was compelled to seek out the stories of South Asians
who were once subjects of the British Raj, and are now British
citizens. Determined to preserve these accounts - of the end of
Empire and the difficult birth of two nations - here Puri records a
series of remarkable first-hand testimonies, as well as those of
their children and grandchildren whose lives are shaped by
partition's legacy. With empathy, nuance and humanity, Puri weaves
a breathtaking tapestry of human experience over a period of seven
decades that trembles with life; an epic of ruptured families and
friendships, extraordinary journeys and daring rescue missions that
reverberates with pain, loss and compassion. The division of the
Indian subcontinent happened far away, but it is also a very
British story. Many of those affected by partition are now part of
the fabric of British contemporary life, but their lives continue
to be touched by this traumatic event. Partition Voices breaks the
silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of
Britain's shared history with South Asia.
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