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 is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Okanagan University College. She has published a book on Rudyard Kipling and has written articles on Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry. Click here for more information. |
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Bearing Witness 2002 Kiriyama Prize: Notable Book award August 14/15, 1947, reverberates with meaning for Indian and Pakistani people and means much more than the "independence" of India. The momentous time marks the birth of two nation states, India and Pakistan, and is fixed in the memory of many as Patrition and end of the Raj. Bearing Witness nuances this historical event by considering contemporary and post-event responses to partition. From testimonials and speeches by Jinnah and Nehru to Indian and British fictional and non-fictional accounts, as well as political cartoons in the English press, Sukeshi Kamra offers an inductive study of primary texts that have been ignored until now. The book is an interdisciplinary study of the three groups most affected by the events of 1947: the British, who were required to leave; the educated Indians, for whom the moment was a rite of passage; and the survivors of Partition, for whom the event is inextricably linked with trauma. Praise for Bearing Witness “. . . a new and important discussion about a stupendously significant moment in the history of modern India . . . [and] a notable contribution to the field of modern Indian history as well as postcolonial literary criticism.”
—Teresa Hubel,
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