Ms Marvel - Readings On Partition
This is a starter list (definitely not definitive!) on readings about Partition for anyone who is interested after watching Ms. Marvel. There’s so much brilliant art and scholarship in the world about Partition, and we hope folks continue to seek it out!
ACADEMIC / HISTORY
Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor
The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times and Work Across the India-Pakistan divide by Ayesha Jalal
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan - Yasmin Khan
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India - Urvashi Butalia
Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema (Oxford Oral History Series) - Anindya Raychaudhuri
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Cultures of History) - Vazira Fazila Zamindar
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition - Nisid Hajari
The Aftermath of Partition - Ganesh Kudaisya
The Shadow of the Great Game: An Untold Story of Partition— Narendra Singh Sarila
Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided— Aanchal Malhotra
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Remembering— Aanchal Malhotra
70 Years On— BBC Partition Stories BBC - 70 Years On: Partition Stories
BBC One— https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0916qmx
Territorial Disputes and Media Repression: A Case Study of Kashmir and West Papua– Aashna Jamal– https://zanaanwanaan.com/issues/territorial-disputes-and-media-repression-a-case-study-of-kashmir-and-west-papua/
The Citizens Archive of Pakistan
National History Museum in Lahore– Partition Immersive Experience
ART
Bitter Fruit - Saadat Hasan Manto
Mottled Dawn— Saadat Hasan Manto
If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar
Bhaswati Ghosh - Victory Colony 1950
Ice Candy Man Cracking India - Bapsi Sidhwa
Belonging - Umi Sinha
The Displaced Children of Displaced Children— Faisal Mohyuddin
Train to Pakistan— Khushwant Singh
Threads— Sandeep Parmar, Nisha Ramayya and Bhanu Kapil
At the Time of Partition— Moniza Alvi
Silence Between The Notes, An Anthology of Partition Poetry — Ed by Aftab Husain & Sarita Jenamani
The Dawn of Freedom— Faiz Ahmed Faiz https://mronline.org/2010/07/17/the-dawn-of-freedom-august-1947/
This is not the Dawn: Poets Write Back on Partition: https://aaww.org/this-is-not-the-dawn-poetry-of-partition/
By The Waters of the Sindh— Agha Shahid Ali— http://daak.co.in/separations-geography-agha-shahid-alis-waters-sind/
Learning Urdu— Agha Shahid Ali— https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/learning-urdu/
Ten Poems on Partition— https://scroll.in/article/934057/what-is-separations-geography-ten-poems-on-the-partition
For My Father, Karachi 1947— Meena Alexander https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56911/for-my-father-karachi-1947
City of Pearls– Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
ARTICLES
Archiving Partition Stories— https://www.thejuggernaut.com/archiving-partition-stories?mc_cid=1f2b146d9c&mc_eid=4332cc99ea
1947 Partition Archives- http://www.1947partitionarchive.org/
A border apart, Stories of Families Divided by Partition— https://www.thejuggernaut.com/families-separated-by-partition-india-pakistan-bangladesh?mc_cid=41e3394d1f&mc_eid=4332cc99ea
Stories of Partition in the Words of Survivors— https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/stories-of-partition-in-the-words-of-the-survivors-113090600940_1.html
The Forgotten Massacre that Ignited the Kashmiri Dispute– https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/6/the-forgotten-massacre-that-ignited-the-kashmir-dispute
Holocaust of the East, not Mentioned in History Books– Ather Zia– https://zanaanwanaan.com/issues/holocaust-of-the-east-not-mentioned-in-books/