Recalibrating Partition

Discussants: Yogesh Snehi, Associate Professor of History, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi. He is the author of Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality; Debjani Sengupta, Professor at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She is the author of The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities (2016); Anindita Ghoshal, Associate Professor of History at Diamond Harbour Women’s University, Kolkata. She is the author of Refugee, Borders, and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India (2021)

Moderator: Dr Shashank Shekhar Sinha, an independent author, historian and Publishing Director, South Asia, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group

This panel discussion brings together new perspectives from Punjab, Bengal and Northeast India to rethink Partition through themes like borderlands, locality, displacement, rehabilitation, belonging and lived experiences. Focusing on marginalised and other communities, and empathy amidst violence, it interrogates questions of citizenship, caste, gender and ethnicity—showing how 1947 continues to shape contemporary South Asia.

(Collaboration: @Crossroads)