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Preserving collective history
Our mission and history
What began as an idea in 2008 to acknowledge and popularize the people’s history of Partition has been accomplished through the founding and building of The 1947 Partition Archive. Today, over 11,500 memories of Partition witnesses have been preserved. As a result, unlike in 2008, Partition is no longer a forgotten memory today, and witnesses’ plight is being heard the world over. Through the sharing of thousands of witness accounts millions of times over the last decade via social media and other digital means, the “people’s history” of Partition has been established and is now a growing and active area of research as well as new documentation efforts. We are proud to have accomplished our first goal of popularizing recognition for this important chapter in our global history. We look forward to working with you in ensuring that the lessons of Partition are taught in textbooks around the world, so that we may avoid repeating history.
Exhibitions & Events
Forgotten frontlines, berkeley, california
Coming this fall to Berkeley in a collaboration between The 1947 Partition Archive and Pacific Attrocities Education – Forgotten
August 31, 2024
Forgotten frontlines, san jose, california
Coming this fall to San Jose in a collaboration between The 1947 Partition Archive and Pacific Attrocities Education – Forgotten
August 17, 2024
10,000 memories, london
A panel discussion and student event commemorating the release of 10,000 Memories, the book.
April 26, 2023
Our Team
Digital Public Histories Curator
Founder & Director
Digital Oral History Archivist and Archives Educator
Constituency Communications Manager
Human Resource Specialist
Board of Directors
Guneeta Singh Bhalla is the founder and executive director of The 1947 Partition Archive. In 1947 her father's family migrated from Lahore to Amritsar on August 14.
Dr. Raashina Humayun is an innovation and engineering leader at Lam Research Corporation. She is passionate about innovation and education and also supports several social and environmental causes.Raashina’s grandfather was a freedom fighter in the quest for Independence from British Rule.
Mr. Eliot Sun is a University of California at Berkeley alumnus with degrees in Mathematics and Economics. He co-founded Kloudless, Inc. and lead the company in its mission to make it easy for developers to build integrations. He has supported The 1947 Partition Archive probono over the past decade in developing its cloud-based oral history documentation platform infrastructure.
Advisory Council
Our advisory councils are project-based for focused support. Advisers come from diverse backgrounds and are lending their knowledge, time and expertise in helping towards two aspects of our mission
Task Force on developing oral history accessibility
Building The 1947 Partition Archive is a multidisciplinary effort requiring support from senior advisers with diverse expertise.
Founding donors
We are immensely grateful to our founding donors for laying the foundation for this people-powered oral history archive.During these initial stages of our growth, we seek to work closely with Founding Donors who are not only recognized for life, but have the opportunity to increase their impact and legacy after the initial contribution period is over.
It costs $200 to record, archive, preserve, and share one story.
The Seed Level Founding Donor Drive kickstarted our work in the early days
The Archival Level Founding Donor round was launched to fund the important work of documenting at least 10,000 oral histories interviews
Museum level founding donors will be funding important public history work that is critically relevant to our current times, and lay the groundwork for our first physical memorial spaces
Our Partners
The 1947 Partition Archive is funded by thousands of community members like you, from across the world, who range in age and have contributed gifts of all sizes. As the archive has grown, it has garnered support from institutional donors as well. Major donors include (in alphabetical order)
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