Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction Suvir Kaul

Partition and the North West Frontier: Memories of Some Khudai Khidmatgars Mukulika Banerjee

Right or Charity? The Debate over Relief and Rehabilitation in West Bengal, 1947-50 Joya Chatterji

Partition Politics and Acchut Identity: A Study of the Scheduled Castes Federation and Dalit Politics in UP, 1946-48 Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Qutb and Modern Memory Sunil Kumar

Performing Partition in Lahore Richard McGill Murphy

An Archive with a Difference: Partition Letters Urvashi Butalia
Bodies Inflicting Pain: Masculinity, Morality, and Cultural Identity in Manto's "Cold Meat" Priyamvada Gopal

Children and the Partition Nita Kumar

Promotional Information

An exploration of representation, memory, and the continuing effects of Partition in contemporary India and Pakistan.

About the Author

Suvir Kaul, is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Thomas Gray and Literary Authority; Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century.