Partition Voices
{{short description| Book on partition of India}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Partition Voices: Untold British Stories
| image = Partition Voices (Puri book).png
| alt =
| caption = First edition cover
| author = Kavita Puri
| audio_read_by = Kavita Puri{{Cite web |url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Partition-Voices-Audiobook/1526616211 |title=Partition Voices (Audiobook) by Kavita Puri |website=Audible |accessdate=22 October 2019}}
| cover_artist =
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| subject = Partition of India
| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing
| pub_date = 11 July 2019
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 320
| isbn = 978-1-4088-9907-6
}}
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories is a non-fiction book by Kavita Puri, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book includes interviews with British people originating from the Indian subcontinent, who witnessed the 1947 partition of India.
Background
In 2017, Puri produced a three-part documentary series, Partition Voices, for BBC Radio 4, about people who witnessed the partition and subsequently migrated to Britain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2019/aug/02/partition-voices-book-review-indians-in-britain-relive-partition-with-pain-2013064.html|title='Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain|website=The New Indian Express|date=2 August 2019 |access-date=2019-09-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090rrl0|title=BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-09}} The series won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. The book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on the series.{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/937336/this-collection-of-partition-interviews-gives-us-new-ways-to-look-at-migration-and-refugees|title=This collection of Partition interviews gives us new ways to look at migration and refugees|last=Mishra|first=Anodya|website=Scroll.in|date=15 September 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-22}} It contains interviews with about two dozen British people who witnessed partition, including the author's father.{{Cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-lahore-to-lancashire|title=From Lahore to Lancashire|last=Keay|first=John|date=2019|website=Literary Review|language=en|access-date=2020-02-22}}{{Cite news|last=Ghosh|first=Bishwanath|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/partition-voices-untold-british-stories-review-the-long-shadow-of-partition/article29232929.ece|title='Partition Voices – Untold British Stories' review: The long shadow of Partition|date=2019-08-24|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-09-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}
Reception
Partitian Voices earned positive critical reviews. In Literary Review, John Keay called it a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book". A review in The Hindu described it as "an important document of those turbulent times — raw and unbiased," while a review from Scroll.in praised it as "an important milestone in the Partition project because it ascribes importance to the British-South Asian dynamic and talks about the shared history of these two nations without villainising or glorifying either side."
References
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External links
- [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/partition-voices-9781408899076/ Official page of book on site of publication house]
Category:2019 non-fiction books
Category:Bloomsbury Publishing books
Category:Books about British India