Memory Studies in India

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj

PART 1: Memory-Sites, Materiality, and Identities

1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings

 Aswathy Krishnan

2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn

 Neha Khetrapal

3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk

 Mohit Abrol

4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives

 Shiji Mariam Varghese

5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs

 Susan Vivien George

6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train

 Prachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh

7 Britain’s Anglo-Indian Associations—Help or Hindrance?

 Rochelle Almeida

8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim

 Rochelle Ann Fernandes

PART 2: Memories, Histories, and Events

9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine

 Bhagyashri V.

10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices

 Rituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma

11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir

 Sana Shah

12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle

 Pratiti Roy

13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time

 Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

PART 3: Narratives, Reconstructions, and Representations

14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalita’s “Bir Daimalur Sadhu”

 Jayashree Borah

15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers

 Samyukthah A

16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto

 Nishat Haider

17 Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan: Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel

 Catherine Shilpa X.

18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims

 Muhammad Niyas

19 “Displacement as an Escape Mechanism”: Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

 Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay

20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Devi’s Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti

 Somrwita Ghosh

21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction

 Vaibhav Iype Parel

Index