FOR MY REFERENCE

India Memory Project Independent stories-http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/tag/partition/

Story 114
Story 106
Story 80

Expert comments on partition and the importance of oral history-https://www.dawn.com/in-

depth/partition/?mc_cid=fbd219ca4b&mc_eid=7e6985e1d6

Partition Stories
Reference Links
1947 Partition Archive-done all texts
The South Asian American Digital Archives nothing
Indian Memory Project-Done all
Panjab Digital Library- nothing
The Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project-The videos are mostly in Bengali
no subtitles

India Memory Project

1. Story 147- Muslim women come after a decade to Hindu house in India to collect
their treasure-http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/tag/partition/

http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/category/battle-and-conflict/1947-partition/

2. Story 168- Plate with a family engraving still found in Karachi on return
3. Story 137-The only valuable thing he took when escaping a mob was the photograph
of his mother; he is the lyricist of Dum Maro Dum
4. Story 102 - Two lovers separated during partition. One kept the photographs of her.
The woman at 96 in an old age home in New Zealand still remembers him when the
grand daughter gets in touch. Reason for leaving India was just tension during Indo-
Pak partition. GET IN TOUCH WITH THE WOMEN DIRECTLY IF POSSIBLE AND
SAY WE’RE INTERESTED DOING A STORY ON THE SAME.
5. Om Prakash Junejo-Story of the plight of refugee camps during partition and the
bloody journey to India Juneja-https://www.dawn.com/in-depth/partition/story/om-
prakash-junejo/
6. Begum witnessed a massacre in her train on her journey to Lahore
https://www.dawn.com/in-depth/partition/story/arghwani-begum/
7. Roshni Rustomji the loss of diversity;waits to hear the sound of bells in a Hanuman
mandir in Karachi, watching a sea of people coming in displaced from their homes,
sights of partition-https://www.dawn.com/in-depth/partition/story/dr-roshni-rustomji-
kerns/ TRY TO GET IN TOUCH AND SEE IF WE CAN EITHER REPUBLISH OR
INTERVIEW HER ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE
A PARSI WOMAN’S ACCOUNT OF PARTITION ...
8. Separation from extended family for 70 years-https://www.dawn.com/in-
depth/partition/story/wasand-mal/
 9. July 11th Pakistan, how a village was spared because it was a birth place of a holy
man but they were forced to evacuate by the military-
https://www.facebook.com/1947PartitionArchive/posts/1583993864957651:0 -
CURATED PIECE WE CAN DO
10. July 9th Mother fed food to refugees as while father was stuck in Lahore at the time -
https://www.facebook.com/1947PartitionArchive/posts/1583942641629440:0
11. July 9th post Trauma of seeing dead bodies piled up, other than violence things like
cholera, rain and poisoned food killed refugees, father of interviewee still believed
they would return to India-
https://www.facebook.com/1947PartitionArchive/posts/1583851664971871:0

Find people who were involved deeply in the swadeshi movements and how partition hurt
their sentiments.

Love in the time of partition:

Humans of Bombay
Humans Of Karachi