Beyond the Archive: Recovering Voices of Freedom and Partition in India

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Dec 13, 2019 · 1h 11m

Recorded October 22, 2019. This public lecture by Sucheta Mahajan, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and author of Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Dr Anna Bryson (QUB). This lecture extends the idea of ‘the archive’ beyond its traditional avatar to the creation of an archive of testimonies around the independence and partition of India. This involves a movement away from the confines of…