Partition Voices: Untold British Stories is a non-fiction book by Kavita Puri, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book includes interviews with British people originating from the Indian subcontinent, who witnessed the 1947 partition of India.
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| Author | Kavita Puri |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Kavita Puri[1] |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Partition of India |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication date | 11 July 2019 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4088-9907-6 |
Background
editIn 2017, Puri produced a three-part documentary series, Partition Voices, for BBC Radio 4, about witnessed the partition and subsequently migrated to Britain.[2][3] The series won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.[2] The book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on the series.[2][4] It contains interviews with about two dozen British people who witnessed partition, including the author's father.[5][6]
Reception
editPartitian Voices earned positive critical reviews. In Literary Review, John Keay called it a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".[5] A review in The Hindu described it as "an important document of those turbulent times — raw and unbiased,"[6] while a review from Scroll.in praised it as "an important milestone in the Partition project because it ascribes importance to the British-South Asian dynamic and talks about the shared history of these two nations without villainising or glorifying either side."
References
edit- ^ "Partition Voices (Audiobook) by Kavita Puri". Audible. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "'Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain". The New Indian Express. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ Mishra, Anodya (15 September 2019). "This collection of Partition interviews gives us new ways to look at migration and refugees". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- ^ a b Keay, John (2019). "From Lahore to Lancashire". Literary Review. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- ^ a b Ghosh, Bishwanath (2019-08-24). "'Partition Voices – Untold British Stories' review: The long shadow of Partition". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-09-09.