The lost homestead : my mother, partition and the Punjab
Wheeler, Marina2020
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On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina Wheeler's mother Dip Singh and her Sikh family were forced to flee their home in the Punjab, never to return. Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, she explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives. As an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, Marina attempts to untangle some of these threads to make sense of her own mother's experience, while weaving her family's story into the broader, still highly contested, history of the region.
Main title:
The lost homestead : my mother, partition and the Punjab / Marina Wheeler.
Author:
Wheeler, Marina, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.
Collation:
328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781473677746 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
954.042092920954.042954.042 WHEEB SIN WHEB SINB
Local class:
B SIN WHE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1881854
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