Bearing witness
Subtitle: partition, independence, end of the Raj
By: Sukeshi Kamra
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-400) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1: The Word on the Streets: Editorials and Political Cartoons in English-Language Dailies (1947); title: 2: 'Dare to Know': Aug. 15, 1947, the Partition; title: 3: Narratives of Pain: Fiction and Autobiography as 'Psychotestimonies' to the Partition; title: 4: The Children of India Remember: Reflections, Chronicles, Diaries and Autobiographies; title: 5: The Rhetoric of Anxiety: The End of the Raj in the Writings of the British and the British Press; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A: Historical Background to the Partition in the Punjab; title: Appendix B: History of the Indian Press under Colonial Rule; title: Appendix C: Biographies.