SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost
Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which
turns out to be so much more than that... it takes the reader into
the contested history of India and Pakistan in the 1940s, and
explores the impact of partition and division (from the Punjab to
Berlin) on the lives of individuals.' - MARY BEARD 'Deeply
touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of
partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A deeply
personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many
in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history...
Evocative... Gripping.' - Financial Times 'A timely read given the
current reassessment of colonialism . . . a charming memoir that
weaves the story of India independence and the tragedy of the
partition with that of her mother's own escape from an unhappy
marriage.' - Christina Lamb, Sunday Times 'A personal, sometimes
harrowing history of partition . . . by narrating partition with a
focus on her mother's family, the Singhs, she has made the
abstractions of history suddenly more real: they are given names,
faces and feelings . . . offers valuable insights, especially since
Gandhi and Jinnah were also products of London's inns of court . .
. [Marina Wheeler is] a writer well worth reading.' - Tanjil
Rashid, The Times 'A family journey, a political drama, a
historical legacy - magnificently portrayed with courage, humanity
and a gentle power.' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
and The Ratline 'A wonderful memoir, gripping, elegant, warm and
insightful - a triumph. An intimate and inspiring portrayal of how
a woman made her own world as nations and empire were made and
unmade.' - Dr Shruti Kapila, Lecturer in Modern History, University
of Cambridge 'This book is more than a family memoir - it is an
insightful glimpse into the way small worlds are forever changed by
the impersonal currents of history.' Shashi Tharoor, author of
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India *** On 3 June
1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two
states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest
escalated. With millions of others, Marina Wheeler's mother Dip
Singh and her Sikh family were forced to flee their home in the
Punjab, never to return. As an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is
now Pakistan, Marina Wheeler weave's her mother's story of loss and
new beginnings, personal and political freedom into the broader,
still highly contested, history of the region. We follow Dip when
she marries Marina's English father and leaves India for good, to
Berlin, then a divided city, and to Washington DC where the fight
for civil rights embraced the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. The Lost
Homestead touches on global themes that strongly resonate today:
political change, religious extremism, migration, minorities,
nationhood, identity and belonging. But above all it is about
coming to terms with the past, and about the stories we choose to
tell about ourselves.
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