10,000 memories : a lived history of partition, independence and World War II in South Asia / the 1947 Partition Archive.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1947 Partition Archive, author, issuing body.

Series:

10,000 memories ; book 1.

10,000 memories ; book 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--India.

World War, 1939-1945.

Political refugees.

Refugees--India.

Refugees.

Refugees--Pakistan.

Collective memory--South Asia.

Collective memory.

Oral history--South Asia.

Oral history.

India--History--Partition, 1947--Anecdotes.

India.

Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.

Great Britain.

Pakistan--History--20th century.

Pakistan.

Bangladesh--History.

Bangladesh.

Bengal (India)--History--Partition, 1947.

Bengal (India).

Punjab (India)--History--Partition, 1947.

Punjab (India).

British colonies.

Military campaigns.

Asia.

India--Bengal.

India--Punjab.

South Asia.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary genre)

Anecdotes

Autobiographies

History

Personal narratives

Personal narratives.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations (mostly color), portriats, maps, ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

10,000 memories, east side

10,000 memories, west side

Ten thousand memories

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : The 1947 Partition Archive, [2023]

Summary:

Based on the first and the largest pan-South Asian oral history survey ever conducted, "10,000 Memories" tells the story of Partition, World War II and Independence in the mid-20th century Indian subcontinent through hundreds of individual experiences. Following World War II, the British Empire retreated swiftly from the Indian subcontinent, triggering chaos, unprecedented violence and the largest mass migration of the 20th century. During the hurried transfer of power, new political boundaries were created and ethno-linguistically defined regions were divided to create the modern nation-states of India and Pakistan (and now Bangladesh). Oral histories provide new insights into this defining moment in world history, highlighting the importance of South Asia in shaping global power dynamics during the Second World War, especially the forgotten China-Burma-India theater of war. Book 1, the inaugural volume of the "10,000 Memories" series, draws on stories from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east, and Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the south, to provide vivid insights into this defining moment in world history unlike any previously written. "10,000 Memories" combines stunning visuals, featuring over 1,000 photographs, with poignant quotes on each page for the casual browser, while longer oral history summaries (stories) on each page help satiate curiosities of the voracious reader. The stories are evocative and bring history to life. You may cry, you may find yourself laughing uncontrollably or simply find yourself spellbound. What is history? Is it the facts and figures we learn in classrooms? We believe it is more than that. It is the culmination of contributions from every human that has ever lived. Every moment in history is as complex as this very moment on earth, right now. Yet, to grasp this complex past, humans have a tendency to reduce multidimensional historical events into single sentences or short stories. This helps our minds digest an incomprehensibly complex past, but it also erases the nuance and more often than not, the simplified perspectives fuel modern conflicts. "10,000 Memories" aims to change this by providing color and dimension to mid-20th century South Asian history and especially the 1947 Partition. To give equal weight to the east and west, "10,000 Memories" can be opened from either cover. There is no front or back, but rather the eastern cover and the western cover. The book opens in Kandahar, Afghanistan on one side and Yangon, Myanmar on the other, meeting in the middle at the Deccan plateau. Readers will journey across the subcontinent from one end to the other, crossing rivers and mountain passes, experiencing the 20th century vicariously through stories. The pages are punctuated by explanatory boxes which provide greater historical context to the stories. "10,000 Memories" is designed to be equally appealing as a coffee table book, as a textbook accompaniment in the classroom, or to grace the shelves of the advanced scholarly researcher. It is for everyone, the reader and the non-reader; the expert and the non-expert.--Publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798986747903

OCLC:

1391777009