Memory Studies in India : Texts and Contexts /

Memory Studies in India : Texts and Contexts /

This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, offering an in-depth exploration of how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge. By addressing a diverse array of topics-from forgotten events, massacres,...

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Other Authors: Parui, Avishek (Editor), Raj, Merin Simi (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Mobilizing Memories ; 5.

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Asian Studies.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  •   Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj
  • PART 1: Memory-Sites, Materiality, and Identities
  • 1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings
  •   Aswathy Krishnan
  • 2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn
  •   Neha Khetrapal
  • 3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk
  •   Mohit Abrol
  • 4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives
  •   Shiji Mariam Varghese
  • 5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs
  •   Susan Vivien George
  • 6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train
  •   Prachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh
  • 7 Britain's Anglo-Indian Associations-Help or Hindrance?
  •   Rochelle Almeida
  • 8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim
  •   Rochelle Ann Fernandes
  • PART 2: Memories, Histories, and Events
  • 9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine
  •   Bhagyashri V.
  • 10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices
  •   Rituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma
  • 11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir
  •   Sana Shah
  • 12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle
  •   Pratiti Roy
  • 13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time
  •   Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
  • PART 3: Narratives, Reconstructions, and Representations
  • 14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalita's "Bir Daimalur Sadhu"
  •   Jayashree Borah
  • 15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
  •   Samyukthah A
  • 16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto
  •   Nishat Haider
  • 17 Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan : Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel
  •   Catherine Shilpa X.
  • 18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims
  •   Muhammad Niyas
  • 19 "Displacement as an Escape Mechanism": Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
  •   Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay
  • 20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Devi's Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti
  •   Somrwita Ghosh
  • 21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction
  •   Vaibhav Iype Parel
  • Index.