Partition Voices
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.
Background
In 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
Partitian 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
- Audible. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "'Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ Mishra, Anodya. "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.
- ^ ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-09-09.