Remembering Partition in the Punjab Part 2

Realms of Memory

In part 2 of my conversation with De Montfort University historian Pippa Virdee we’ll look closer at whether the violence of partition could have been avoided. We’ll consider how the difficulty of labeling the violence complicates efforts to remember what happened. We’ll learn how much of this violence targeted women who were doubly victimized both during and after partition. We’ll discuss whether the rise of populist nationalist leaders like Narendra Modi represents a failure to learn from partition. Lastly we’ll think about whether the recent creation of massive digital archives devoted to the memory of survivors gives us a better understanding of partition.