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This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, offering an in-depth exploration of how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge. By addressing a diverse array of topics—from forgotten events, massacres, and monuments to public spaces and food rituals—across various epochs, the essays in this collection bring new insights into India's complex cultural history. With contributions from scholars across different stages of their academic careers, this volume not only enriches the field of memory studies but also paves the way for future research in India and beyond.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj
PART 1: Memory-Sites, Materiality, and Identities
1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings
Aswathy Krishnan
2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn
Neha Khetrapal
3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk
Mohit Abrol
4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives
Shiji Mariam Varghese
5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs
Susan Vivien George
6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train
Prachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh
7 Britain's Anglo-Indian Associations—Help or Hindrance?
Rochelle Almeida
8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim
Rochelle Ann Fernandes
PART 2: Memories, Histories, and Events
9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine
Bhagyashri V.
10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices
Rituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma
11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir
Sana Shah
12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle
Pratiti Roy
13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
PART 3: Narratives, Reconstructions, and Representations
14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalita's "Bir Daimalur Sadhu"
Jayashree Borah
15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
Samyukthah A
16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto
Nishat Haider
17 Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan: Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel
Catherine Shilpa X.
18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims
Muhammad Niyas
19 "Displacement as an Escape Mechanism": Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay
20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Devi's Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti
Somrwita Ghosh
21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction
Vaibhav Iype Parel
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