TY - JOUR
T1 - Partition at 75
T2 - reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora
AU - Clini, Clelia
AU - Hornabrook, Jasmine
AU - Nataraj, Paul
AU - Keightley, Emily
N1 - Funding Information:
The research project Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination: British Asian Memory, Identity and Community After Partition (2017–2022), is funded by Leverhulme Trust under Grant [RL-2016-076].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024/9/1
Y1 - 2024/9/1
N2 - In 2017, the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India was widely discussed in the UK, not only within academic and cultural circles, but also in popular culture. Five years later, on the 75th anniversary of Partition, the scholarly, cultural and community interest in the events of 1947 intersected with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the South Asian population from Uganda, and the 70th anniversary of the Language Movement that led towards Bangladesh independence in 1971 - the 50th anniversary of which was celebrated just the year before. Based on the work of the Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination research project (Loughborough University) this article will explore the entanglement of the memories of these events within the South Asian diaspora, and how their transmission and communication shape the construction of contemporary diasporic identity and concepts of community, belonging and ‘home.’.
AB - In 2017, the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India was widely discussed in the UK, not only within academic and cultural circles, but also in popular culture. Five years later, on the 75th anniversary of Partition, the scholarly, cultural and community interest in the events of 1947 intersected with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the South Asian population from Uganda, and the 70th anniversary of the Language Movement that led towards Bangladesh independence in 1971 - the 50th anniversary of which was celebrated just the year before. Based on the work of the Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination research project (Loughborough University) this article will explore the entanglement of the memories of these events within the South Asian diaspora, and how their transmission and communication shape the construction of contemporary diasporic identity and concepts of community, belonging and ‘home.’.
KW - decolonisation
KW - identity
KW - memory
KW - migration
KW - Partition
KW - South Asian diaspora
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85168101657&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19438192.2023.2245631
DO - 10.1080/19438192.2023.2245631
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168101657
VL - 16
SP - 167
EP - 185
JO - South Asian Diaspora
JF - South Asian Diaspora
SN - 1943-8192
IS - 2
ER -