The victims of the Great Migration couldn’t take much with them – but it was enough to remind them of what they left behind. Seventy years on,
Aanchal Malhotra revisits the momentous period in Remnants of a Separation – a history of Partition through material memory.
Paan is served: Narjis Khatun’s
Khaas Daan
came to Lahore with her when she was 10, forever reminding her of the daily customs and traditions that she had grown up with in
Patiala
.
Divine solace: Sumitra Kapur’s Guru
Granth Sahib
made its way across the border after being in the safekeeping of a Muslim family in Rawalpindi, her childhood home where she grew up to learn and love music.
Hard cut: Prof Sat Pal Kohli’s widowed mother stitched the kids’ clothes with these, one of the few things they could carry while fleeing a burning Lahore.
Beads from Bachpan: The string of rare Basra pearls was a gift from
Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner
to young Azra Haq in 1943. The girl from Ludhiana carried them with her to Lahore during Partition.
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