Recasting the Divide: Partition, Collective Memory, and the Untapped Potential for Conflict Reconciliation in South Asia

• In Event: Historical Legacies of Conflict

Brief Overview

This paper explores the legacies of the 1947 Partition on India and Pakistan’s collective memory, arguing that engaging with shared traumas embedded in microhistories can foster reconciliation and peacebuilding.

Author

• Navroz Singh, University of Delaware