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Pictured: The 1952 passport issued to Anil Kumar Kundu. Image courtesy Sumallya Mukhopadhyay Transcending Borders through Oral History by Sumallya Mukhopadhyay It is
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Pictured: The 1952 passport issued to Anil Kumar Kundu. Image courtesy Sumallya Mukhopadhyay Transcending Borders through Oral History by Sumallya Mukhopadhyay It is
Student researcher Deepika Rani discovers surprising findings on the experiences of women during Partition, which challenge mainstream narratives. She also makes intriguing comparisons to her
Story: One and one don’t make two, but 11. Hence if we are together, we can be much greater than two. We, the people of
Story: I was born in 1933, in the village Dhudial, then in District Jhelum, (about 80 kilometres from the modern city of Islamabad), with a
Story: I was born in 1926 in Mianwali Bangla, Daska Tehsil, in the Sialkot District of West Punjab. My father, Tarlok Singh, was an accounting
Story: I was also called Patty and was born in 1926 on Sumsay Estate, Connoor, Mysore (now Mysuru). My family members were tea makers, and
Story: I was born in 1941 in Hyderabad to a Scottish-Indian family, and named Maryam Haqqani. I was called Munni at home by my family
Story: I was born in 1926 to Sardar Sunder Singh and Kundan Kaur in my mother’s village of Moga in Punjab. I grew up in
Story: I was born in 1910 in my ancestral home at Pahari Imli, near Churi Walan in Jama Masjid, Old Delhi. I was a freedom
Story: My name is Feroza Khatun and I was born in 1934 in the village of Ghono Shyampur near the town of Godagari, in Rajshahi
Story: I was born in 1929 in Tuthamandra, a village in Faridpur District. My father was a farmer, and my mother was a highly educated
Story: I was born in the town of Gouripur in Mymensingh District in 1920. Gouripur has an important place in the history of Bengal. At
Story: I was born in 1927, in a village named Phaibung Khullen, to S Khazei and Thaisaorow. Phaibung Khullen is in the Senapati District of
Story: I was born in Barangabari, Gohpur, located in Sonitpur district in Assam in 1930. I come from a Hindu family that followed Vaishnavism. My
Story:We were an Urdu-Punjabi speaking family living in Quetta. My father, Mohammad Hussain, originally from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was a contractor for the railways. I was
Name: Khabbar Khan SeelroInterviewed By: Murtaza KharaniInterview Date:Interview Location: Story: I was born in 1939 in a village called Pari Jo Shahar, near the city
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