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Violence, Martyrdom, and Partition: A Daughter's Testimony
By (author) Nonica Datta
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This book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (1914 2003), head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to women's education in rural north India. Subhashini's narrative unfolds a story, within a sea of stories, which has remained silent in the dominant historical discourse. Her memory evokes contrasting images of violence, martyrdom and Partition. Not 1947 but 1942, the year of her fathers martyrdom is recalled as a violent rupture in her memory. Partition is a moment of celebration, revenge, divine retribution, empathy, remorse, tragedy and fear. Translating Subhashini's oral testimony, Nonica Datta recreates the memory of a colonial subject, living in postcolonial times, as a historical narrative. Moving beyond a historical event and well-established historical facts, Violence, Martyrdom and Partition is a parallel history of events and non-events, memory and history, testimony and experience. Breaking the silence of an oral testimony and presenting memory as history, this work opens up the historians territory. This testimony defies the opposition between subject and agent, victim and victimizer, witness and survivor, aggressor and spectator, perpetrator and bystander. Subhashinis candid, repetitive narrative suggests a remarkable interplay of individual and collective remembrance, and reveals the shifts, ambiguities, silences and contradictions in an individual memory.
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Publisher | OUP India
Published date | 12 Mar 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 227 x 147 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 508g
ISBN | 978-0-1956-9934-0
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BISAC | social science / discrimination & race relations
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