Tag: 1947 Partition Archive

"The Hindustan Times Newspaper Published on 15th August,1947." (Source: The Allrounder)

Independence and Partition: clear words, unclear legacy

August 15, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Coinciding with independence celebrations in Pakistan and India on August 14 and 15 respectively, an article in The New York Times features the 1947 Partition Archive, a project based in Berkeley, California, led by Guneeta Bhalla. The two-year-old project is creating an oral history archive of personal stories from survivors of the religion-based partition of Punjab and Bengal in 1947 that created the nation-states of Pakistan and India, and later, Bangladesh: …its dozens of volunteers have video-recorded 647 oral histories […]

Categories: Events, Reflections • Tags: 1947, 1947 Partition Archive, Guneeta Singh Bhalla, India, New York Times, Oral history, Pakistan, Partition of India

Reflections on Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference: Day 1

February 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

This past weekend, I attended the third annual Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference at California State University East Bay, held by Jakara Movement, the CSU East Bay Ethnic Studies Department and the Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at CSU East Bay. I had also attended the previous conferences in 2010 and 2011. I’ve enjoyed all three of these meetings of the mind immensely, and I believe the 2012 iteration was a raising of the bar in the discourse it […]

Categories: Events, Reflections • Tags: 1947 Partition Archive, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Bandana Kaur, bhangra, biodiversity, California State University East Bay, Green Revolution, Guneeta Kaur Bhalla, Harjant Gill, Harpreet Neelam, Jakara Movement, Jasmine Singh, Kiran Preet Kaur, Neelamjit Dhillon, partaal, racialization, Roots of Love, Sabharwal Chair of Punjabi and Sikh Studies, Sikh art, Sikholars, Title VII

The mixed emotions around Indian Independence Day

August 15, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

For many people of South Asian heritage across the world, August 15th is a time of celebration. Today is the anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan from British rule in 1947. However, it also marks one of the most tragic events in human history: the land that was ruled by the British for over a century was to be partitioned along religious lines, resulting in one of the largest mass migrations of people in human history. Despite the enormity […]

Categories: Resources • Tags: 1947 Partition Archive, British Raj, India, Oakland Tribune, Pakistan, Partition of India