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“The notion that where one is from can be understood using what remains of that place opens up a highly sensitive and rich terrain that can help unpack belonging, especially if that place has now been rendered inaccessible by national borders.”

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Book:Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

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“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.”

History India Memory Pakistan Archeology Partition 1947

Book:Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

“Memory dilutes, but the object remains unaltered.”

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Book:Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

“Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.”

History India Memory Pakistan Remembering Partition 1947

Book:Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

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