From Quetta to Delhi: A Partition Story

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Review Reena Nanda's memoir of her family's displacement is a moving addition to what is often called Partition literature. Merging the personal with the historical and political aspects of this unprecedented upheaval, Nanda's account highlights both the pathos and fortitude that make all tales of such refugee families so powerful and relevant even today. (Ira Pande)More than a uniquely personal narrative of Partition from Balochistan, this book maps in loving detail the everyday life of undivided India. It tells us a story of religious pluralism both victorious and vanquished, and stands as a literary testament of past and future possibilities in co-existence. For if co-existence has a future we must remember, as Reena Nanda does, the Hindu and Sikh history of what is today Pakistan. (Faisal Devji)Shifting between the personal tragedies encountered by her family and the collective trauma of 1947, Ms. Nanda helps recover Partition and pre Partition memories in a deeply intimate and engaging way. 70 years after Partition, the book serves as a vital reminder of how much we are still to learn about our shared past and its impact on our present. (Anam Zakaria) Book Description Set against the backdrop of Partition the book traces a Hindu Punjabi family's move from Jhang in Punjab to Quetta in Balochistan many decades before Indian Independence, assimilating and adapting to the society and culture of the Pathans. The subsequent trauma of partition faced by the next generation is documented as well. See all Product description