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SUMMARY:Scarred Nation: Partition in the Indian Subcontinent
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 The territorial division of the Indian subcontinent 
 into India and Pakistan, and eventually 
 Bangladesh, is referred to as "Partition" in 
 English. Indian languages have their own terms 
 to describe this phenomenon and, quite often, 
 victims of this history provide in their 
 oral testimonies versions that complicate the 
 singularity of this event even further. My talk 
 will provide the dialectics between history 
 and memory, state and individuals to show 
 how this "event" is constructed and remembered 
 in diverse ways in India. I will focus largely 
 on my research on Sindh and how its minorities 
 migrated to India during Partition, their 
 processes of rehabilitation and resettlement 
 and also compare them with Sindhi speaking 
 Muslims who have lived along the borders of 
 Kutch and Rajasthan in India to argue that negotiation 
 of borders is an everyday practice 
 for some. Finally, partition reincarnates itself 
 through border making and border crossing 
 practices in the subcontinent. I examine this 
 in relation to language, literature, religion 
 and nations at large.\n
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 Rita Kothari is 
 a professor in the Department of Humanities 
 and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of 
 Technology, Gandhinagar, India. \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Asian Studies Center\n
 Contact email: asiansc@isp.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:JMC Library, 3rd Floor Case Hall
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