Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance

Introduction

PART I - Memory as Agency

Chapter 1

Reclaiming Identity: Memory as Mechanism of Protest in Two Bengali Dalit Narratives

Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis

Chapter 2

Remembering and Responsibility: A Study of Dalit Life Narratives

Greeshma Mohan

PART II - Contested Articulations and Curations of Collective Pasts

Chapter 3

Missionary Geography and the Imaginations of Sacred Space in Post-colonial North-East India

Hamari Jamatia

Chapter 4

Evoking Public Memory and Re-writing Histories: Memorials Within the Anti-Caste Struggles

Shabana Ali

PART III - Ghosts from/of the Past: Spaces of Memory and Forgetting

Chapter 5

Spectrality of the Past: Haunted Memories, Transforming Urban Space and Bengali Cinematic Imagination

Sarunas Paunksnis

Chapter 6

Romancing Ruins: Architectural Memory in Gulabo Sitabo

Zehra Kazmi

PART IV - Negotiating History and Memory

Chapter 7

Memory and Counter-Memory: Re-membering the Malabar Rebellion

Manoj Parameswaran and Aiswarya Sanath

Chapter 8

History Writing and the Pakistani Ulama: Competing for Legitimacy

Mohammad Waqas Sajjad

PART V - Remembering Displacement

Chapter 9

Cultural Memory of Climate Crisis and Human Displacement in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island

Trina Bose and Punyashree Panda

Chaoter 10

Are You What You Eat? Food as Memory Among Punjabi Partition Survivors

Mohini Mehta

PART VI - Historical Injustice and Collective Trauma

Chapter 11

Reading Remembrance and Reconciliation in Post-War Nepal through Tara Rai's Chapamar Yuwati ko Diary

Kritika Chettri

Chapter 12

Curating National Pasts and Historical Trauma: Mourning and Loss in the Cultural Memory of the 1971 Bangladesh War

Isha Dubey