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The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India

Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin (Eds.)

Sage Publications, 2018.

The absence of psychological narratives of the Partition of India is a deafening silence. In this edited volume, literary theorists, feminists, political scientists, and psychiatrists discuss the possible reasons for the silence. Coming from a series of seminars, discussions, and archival explorations, this collection attempts to begin some dialogue around this sensitive subject.

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Reviews:

• Book review: Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin (eds.), The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India

  Raghuvendra Tanwar in the Indian Historical Review, 48 (1), 2021 June.

• Book review: Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin, The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India 🔒

  Zehra Mehdi in Social Change, 51 (2), 2021 June.

• Continuity of Madness, the Border, and Partition of India 🔒

  Srishtee Sethi in the Economic & Political Weekly, 55 (18), 2020 May.

• Review: The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India

  Baher Ibrahim in Refugee History, 2019 January.

• Communal Violence As A Pathology 🔒

  Amandeep Sandhu in The Book Review, 42 (9), 2018 September.

• The Blood Sacrifice: Partition and the Psyche

  Darshana Ramdev in the Deccan Chronicle, 2018 August.

• The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India review: A division of minds

  Urvashi Butalia in The Hindu, 2018 July.

• Partition trauma and aftermath: A dissection of the 'metaphor for madness'

  Tarun Basu in Business Standard (via IANS), 2018 June.