This talk was part of Shared Histories, a History for Peace conference held at and co-organized by St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh in May, 2019.
'There is an iconic picture of Partition that shows a man sitting in a library, his head in his hands, and the
table on which he is leaning piled high with books, one lot marked Pakistan and one lot marked India.
The migration of millions, the loss of home and country, of relatives and friends, the loot, arson, violence,
all of this and more has come to characterise Partition. But there were other aspects of this divide too:
how did bank accounts get shifted? What happened to pensions? To currency? To different institutions
such as museums, colleges, newspapers and others. In this talk, I will trace the life of a select number of
institutions, some old, some new, that were divided or came into being in the immediate aftermath of
Partition.
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URVASHI BUTALIA co-founded Kali for Women in 1984 and in 2003 founded Zubaan. She has a long involvement in the women’s movement in India, and is a well-known writer, both in academia and in the literary world. She has several works to her credit, key
among which is her path-breaking study of Partition, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition
of India which won the Oral History Book Association Award and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture.
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