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Author:   Nalini Iyer ,  Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032836485

ISBN 10:   1032836482
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Partition at 75+ 1. Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslim’s Ecstatic Return 2. “Ancestral Voices Prophesying War”: Investigating the Legacy of the 1947 Partition in the 21st-Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War 3. Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema 4. Materializing the Memory: The Shawl in Partition Narratives 5. Death and Life in the Bordersand: On the Queer Remembrance of Partition through Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand 6. “The Story of Our Shame”: Confronting the Silenced ‘Bihari’ Other in Mahmud Rahman’s “Kerosene” 7. Hypereventing History: Ecological and Political Disaster in Bengali Dalit Narratives on Partition 8. Synchronizing the Dalan, Chandal Aesthetics and Namashudrayan in Manoranjan Byapari’s Autobiography Interrogating My Chandal Life 9. Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture 10. Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam 11. Descendants of a Difficult Past: Narratives of the Sindhi Partition Refugees in Bangalore

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Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University and Chief Editor of South Asian Review. Among her numerous publications is the co-edited book Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics. Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA. She is the author of Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence. She also translates Bengali poetry and fiction, including Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Blood and Bani Basu’s The Continents Between.

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