In the Shadow of Partition Seventy-Five Years and Beyond

Introduction: The Partition at 75+ 1. Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslim's Ecstatic Return 2. "Ancestral Voices Prophesying War": Investigating the Legacy of the 1947 Partition in the 21st-Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War 3. Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema 4. Materializing the Memory: The Shawl in Partition Narratives 5. Death and Life in the Bordersand: On the Queer Remembrance of Partition through Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 6. "The Story of Our Shame": Confronting the Silenced 'Bihari' Other in Mahmud Rahman's "Kerosene" 7. Hypereventing History: Ecological and Political Disaster in Bengali Dalit Narratives on Partition 8. Synchronizing the Dalan, Chandal Aesthetics and Namashudrayan in Manoranjan Byapari's Autobiography Interrogating My Chandal Life 9. Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture 10. Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam 11. Descendants of a Difficult Past: Narratives of the Sindhi Partition Refugees in Bangalore