IN FREEDOM'S SHADE
Language: English Publication details: USA Penguin 2017/01/01Edition: 1Description: 382ISBN:- 9780143441380
- 920 ANI/IN
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920 ANA/BY BY MY OWN RULES : My Story in My Own Words | 920 AND/LI LIFE BEYOND BOUNDARIES / | 920 ANI RAFI AHMAD KIDWAI | 920 ANI/IN IN FREEDOM'S SHADE | 920 ANI/PC P.C.RAY : | 920 ANI/RO ROADS ACROSS THE EARTH : On The Life, Times And Art Of Anil Karanjai 1940-2001 | 920 ANI/TA TASTE FOR TROUBLE : Memories from Another Time |
Appearing for the first time in English translation, In Freedom’s Shade is Anis Kidwai’s moving personal memoir of the first two years of nascent India. It is an activist’s record that reveals both the architecture of the violence during Partition as well as the efforts of ordinary citizens to bring the cycle of reprisal and retribution to a close.
Beginning from the murder of her husband in October 1947, with a rare frankness, sympathy and depth of insight, Anis Kidwai tells the stories of the thousands who were driven away from their homelands in Delhi and its neighbouring areas by eviction or abduction or the threat of forced religious conversion. Of historical importance for its account of the activities of the Shanti Dal, the recovery of abducted women and the history of Delhi, In Freedom’s Shade also has an equal contemporary relevance. In part a delineation of the roots of the afflictions that beset Indian society and in part prophetic about the plagues that were to come, Anis Kidwai’s testament is an enduring reminder that memory without truth is futile; only when it serves the objective of reconciliation, does it achieve meaning and significance.
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