10,000 Memories

2024 book February 2026 10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia 10000 memories book cover.png Guneeta Singh Bhalla Fakhra HasanFahad NahviUdayan DasErin RiggsAmardip Kumar Singh United States English Non-fiction Oral history of the 1947 Partition of IndiaWorld War II in South Asia The 1947 Partition Archive 8 August 2024 Print (hardcover) 582 979-8-9867479-0-3 10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia is a 2024 non-fiction compendium of oral histories produced by the non-profit, The 1947 Partition Archive. The 582-page first volume, edited by founder Guneeta Singh Bhalla with Fakhra Hasan, Fahad Nahvi, Udayan Das, Erin Riggs, and Amardip Kumar Singh, was published in Berkeley, California on 8 August 2024.https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1101752-never-ending-stories Never-ending stories Zubair Ahmad August 20, 2023 The News International Drawing on thousands of witness testimonies recorded across the South Asian subcontinent, the book reconstructs the intertwined wartime and decolonization experiences that led to the 1947 Partition of India.https://www.thehindu.com/books/stories-of-india-pakistan-partition-as-oral-recorded-history-in-1947-partition-archives-book-10000-memories/article66723661.ece Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book Deepa Alexander April 13, 2023 The Hinduhttps://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/gripping-storytelling-session-busts-many-myths-surrounding-partition-101678734398356.html Gripping storytelling session busts many myths surrounding Partition March 14, 2023 Hindustan Times Contents 10,000 Memories is printed as a double-sided "eastern" and "western" book: one cover opens in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while the reverse begins in Yangon, Myanmar, with the narratives meeting in the Deccan Plateau. More than 1,000 archival photographs accompany 400 condensed life-story summaries, each framed by contextual sidebars on military campaigns, refugee corridors and political negotiations.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/partition-archive-inaugural-book-10000-memories-a-lived-history-of-partition-set-to-release-on-friday/articleshow/98523248.cms Partition archive' inaugural book 10,000 Memories, a lived history of partition set to release on Friday March 9, 2023 The Times of India The editors emphasize regional diversity while linking local memories to larger theatres such as the China-Burma-India front and the Bengal famine.https://books.google.com/books?id=TMGrzwEACAAJ 10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia The 1947 Partition Archive Ehsan Khan August 8, 2024 1947 Partition Archive 979-8-9867479-0-3 Reception Critics greeted the volume as an accessible bridge between scholarship and family memory. Prasun Chaudhuri of The Telegraph characterized a pre-launch reading in Kolkata as "a reminder of how Partition shaped the electoral choices of a generation for their entire lifetime".https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/pre-launch-of-the-book-10000-memories-a-lived-history-of-partition-independence-and-world-war-ii-in-south-asia-gets-the-telegraph-thinking-about-partition/cid/1921883 The Partition Party Prasun Chaudhuri 12 March 2023 The Telegraph Times of India highlighted the book's "pan-South Asian scope" and the inclusion of 400 first-person narratives. An event at SOAS University of London praised the book for offering "a unique dimension and insight into the history of Partition ... unlike any previously written."https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/10000-memories-lived-history-partition-independence-and-world-war-ii-south-asia 10,000 Memories: A lived history of partition, independence and World War II in South Asia SOAS April 26, 2023 SOAS The University of Florida International Center launch event hailed the work as "the first and largest pan-South Asian oral-history survey ever conducted."https://internationalcenter.ufl.edu/10000-memories-lived-history-partition 10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition International Center University of Florida References External links 10000memories.com Category:2024 non-fiction books Category:Oral history books