Presenter
Pratiksha Minee - ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandPanel
78 – IDENTITY, MEMORY AND BELONGING IN THE PARTITION OF INDIAAbstract
The 1947-Partition was a traumatic event, often remembered through refugee narratives in popular culture. Yet these narratives overlook the Dalit perspective. This paper will focus, historically and ethnographically, on generations that did not experience Partition but grew up in its shadow to establish an understanding of memory transmission. The paper shows the interplay between silencing, forgetting, and ignorance in constructing of partition memory. What are the remembered post-partition interjections for Dalits?
