Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance: Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia [Hardcover]

This volume explores new avenues in the field of memory studies. Going beyond Western frames of reference, it shows how religion, region, caste, and class and their intersectionality and the fraught legacy of colonialism shape acts of both collective remembrance and forgetting in South Asia.

Introduction

PART I - Memory as Agency

Chapter 1

Reclaiming Identity: Memory as Mechanism of Protest in Two Bengali Dalit Narratives

Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis

Chapter 2

Remembering and Responsibility: A Study of Dalit Life Narratives

Greeshma Mohan

PART II -?Contested Articulations and Curations of Collective Pasts

Chapter 3

Missionary Geography and the Imaginations of Sacred Space in Post-colonial North-East India

Hamari Jamatia

Chapter 4

Evoking Public Memory and Re-writing Histories: Memorials Within the Anti-Caste Struggles

Shabana Ali

PART III -?Ghosts from/of the Past: Spaces of Memory and Forgetting

Chapter 5

Spectrality of the Past: Haunted Memories, Transforming Urban Space and Bengali Cinematic Imagination

`arknas Paunksnis

Chapter 6

Romancing Ruins: Architectural Memory in?Gulabo Sitabo

Zehra Kazmi

PART IV -?Negotiating History and Memory

Chapter 7

Memory and Counter-Memory: Re-membering the Malabar Rebellion