by Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 22:10, 17 September 2018 (UTC). Updated: August 10, 2015 12:05:28 pm All Rights Reserved. This is a contested technical request ().Hhkohh 03:13, 9 September 2018 (UTC). Singapore-based Asia editor for No Comments Yet A carefully restrained and delineated account makes for chilling reading.
I’m not so sure.Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved Book Review: Nisid Hajari's Midnight’s Furies gives a compelling account of Partition I am reminded of DD Kosambi’s scathing critique of the western emphasis on chronology as the only way of understanding history.Instead, I would like to offer that each — episode, or pattern, or chronology — has its own charm. Narrated by Sunil Malhotra.
With the deft touch of a novelist, he brings alive the Partition story — or perhaps, I should say “a Partition story” for there are many — with an elegance that keeps the reader turning the pages even if the broad strokes of the history may be familiar with her.Characters we may only have met in the dry dust of the historical record or the history textbook, become real, and very human, often flawed. And yet, was there so clearly a cause and effect way to understand Partition? Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Mr. Hajari writes with grace, precision and an unerring eye for detail. Oral narratives of survivors are only one of these.
So, it was with some surprise, that I read Hajari’s claim that Partition remains poorly understood within India, as I did his slight disdain for “other” histories.Perhaps it is true, though, that at a political level — which is what really counts in formal India-Pakistan relations — Partition is poorly understood. © Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC. Is that too much to ask?My second question has to do with the characterisation of certain types of histories as “episodic” — something that, it seems to me, carries within it the assumption that somehow chronology can be privileged over episode. Hindus and Muslims (and Sikhs and Christians) living tolerantly together for centuries on the subcontinent …
Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody-it was suppos Oppose Seems like a common name Hhkohh 03:13, 9 September 2018 (UTC) BOOK REVIEW: 'Midnight's Furies' Follow Us Search Search Keyword: Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletters. MIDNIGHT'S FURIES THE DEADLY LEGACY OF INDIA'S PARTITION. Midnight’s Furies is a treasure trove of information for those looking at the roots of this fratricidal conflict. No Comments Yet The study of Partition has undergone considerable change in the last few decades, not only in terms of academic explorations but also in general accounts, in collections of interviews and stories, in textbooks, and indeed in art, music, culture, film and more. influencers in the know since 1933. The Partition story that he chooses to recount may not offer the reader any startling new insights into an already familiar history — although it certainly offers a different perspective, a different nuance — but the way in which he tells it holds the reader’s interest from beginning to end.My questions, then, have to do with other things. At a people to people level, however, as even the reception of films like Bajrangi Bhaijaan shows, things are changing.Hajari doesn’t really pay much attention to these “other” histories — he makes a passing reference to the presence of studies that deal with the human histories of Partition, presumably through oral narratives — and dismisses them as “granular, episodic and often unreliable”.Yet, Hajari’s own book makes extensive use of his considerable storytelling skills, and indeed, of the people’s voices that stories inevitably involve.
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