"MYSTERY, MAYHEM, TRAUMA - A READING LIST FOR INDIA'S 1947 PARTITION"
What was Partition? And more importantly, what is it now? In official narratives, the events that lead to the end of British colonial rule and the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947 has been carefully tucked behind the veil of independence with its cavalcade of celebratory fireworks and a false narrative of non-violent overthrow of colonial rule. But thanks to the incredible excavatory work of social scientists, poets, writers, archivists, and filmmakers, we now understand Partition more fully: it was a division, an etching of haphazard boundaries.