Unbordered Memories: Sindhi Stories of Partition
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Editor and Translator: Rita Kothari
9780143063650 | PB | pp. 200 | 2009 | Penguin Random House
Unbordered Memories by Rita Kothari witnesses Sindhis from India and Pakistan making imaginative entries into each other’s worlds.
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If Partition changed the lives of Sindhi Hindus who suffered the loss of home, language and culture, and felt unwanted in their new homeland, it also changed things for Sindhi Muslims. The Muslims had to grapple with a nation that had suddenly become unrecognizable and where they found themselves to be second class citizens. Not used to the Urdu, the mosques and the new avatars of domination, they were bewildered by the new Islamic state of Pakistan. Sindh as a nation had simultaneously become elusive for both communities.
In Unbordered Memories we witness Sindhis from India and Pakistan making imaginative entries into each other’s worlds. Many stories in this volume testify to the Sindhi Muslims’ empathy for the world inhabited by the Hindus, and the Indian Sindhis’ solidarity with the turbulence experienced by Pakistani Sindhis. These writings from both sides of the border fiercely critique the abuse of human dignity in the name of religion and national borders. They mock the absurdity of containing subcontinental identities within the confines of nations and of equating nations with religions. And they continually generate a shared, unbordered space for all Sindhis—Hindus and Muslims.
Additional information
| Editor and Translator: | Rita Kothari |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780143063650 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Translator
The translator teaches at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad. Her publications on literary sociology of Gujarat and translation include Translating India, Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Coral Island: Poems by Niranjan Bhagat, Angaliyat (a Gujarati Dalit novel). Her forthcoming book is Stigmatised Identities: The Sindhis of Gujarat.
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