1. Narrating everyday forms of past : an introduction -- 2. State and community in the narratives of displacement -- 3. The last journey : exploring social class in partition migration -- 4. Governmental policies and practices of resettlement -- 5. Restoration of loss -- 6. Missing fields : the 'untouchable' migrants of partition -- 7. Claims of locality : at home in Delhi -- 8. Ethnic amnesia : identity making among Punjabi Hindus -- 9. A community of narrative
Summary
S̀ince 1947', an oft-encountered phrase in Delhi, has been used in this book for an incursion into the embedded themes of disruption in everyday life: forced migration, and then reparation; rearrangement; and renewed embodiment of the migrant's personal and social bearings. It explores how past is employed to repair ruptures in people's ordinary lives. It specifically delves into the Partition experience used by Punjabi Hindu refugees to evolve coping strategies when forced to leave their homes in 1947, and examines the emerging identification process
