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This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, offering an in-depth exploration of how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge. By addressing a diverse array of topicsâfrom forgotten events, massacres, and monuments to public spaces and food ritualsâacross various epochs, the essays in this collection bring new insights into Indiaâs complex cultural history. With contributions from scholars across different stages of their academic careers, this volume not only enriches the field of memory studies but also paves the way for future research in India and beyond.
Avishek Parui is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Studies, IIT Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He researches in memory studies, masculinity studies, and medical humanities. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan 2018) and Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield 2022).
Merin Simi Raj is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Studies, IIT Madras. Her research areas are memory studies, digital humanities, and Anglo-Indian studies. She is the co-editor of Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
The editors are faculty coordinators of the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras and founding chairpersons of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS). They developed MemoryBytes, the first Augmented Reality (AR)-based mobile application using the intersection of memory studies and digital humanities.
Merin Simi Raj is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Studies, IIT Madras. Her research areas are memory studies, digital humanities, and Anglo-Indian studies. She is the co-editor of Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
The editors are faculty coordinators of the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras and founding chairpersons of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS). They developed MemoryBytes, the first Augmented Reality (AR)-based mobile application using the intersection of memory studies and digital humanities.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAvishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj
1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings
âAswathy Krishnan
2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn
âNeha Khetrapal
3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk
âMohit Abrol
4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives
âShiji Mariam Varghese
5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs
âSusan Vivien George
6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train
âPrachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh
7 Britainâs Anglo-Indian AssociationsâHelp or Hindrance?
âRochelle Almeida
8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim
âRochelle Ann Fernandes
9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine
âBhagyashri V.
10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices
âRituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma
11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir
âSana Shah
12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle
âPratiti Roy
13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time
âSumallya Mukhopadhyay
14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalitaâs âBir Daimalur Sadhuâ
âJayashree Borah
15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwinâs What the Body Remembers
âSamyukthah A
16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto
âNishat Haider
17 Kalkiâs Ponniyin Selvan: Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel
âCatherine Shilpa X.
18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims
âMuhammad Niyas
19 âDisplacement as an Escape Mechanismâ: Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjeeâs Jasmine
âShrimoyee Chattopadhyay
20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Deviâs Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti
âSomrwita Ghosh
21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction
âVaibhav Iype Parel
Index
Introduction
âAvishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj
PART 1: Memory-Sites, Materiality, and Identities
1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings
âAswathy Krishnan
2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn
âNeha Khetrapal
3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk
âMohit Abrol
4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives
âShiji Mariam Varghese
5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs
âSusan Vivien George
6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train
âPrachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh
7 Britainâs Anglo-Indian AssociationsâHelp or Hindrance?
âRochelle Almeida
8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim
âRochelle Ann Fernandes
PART 2: Memories, Histories, and Events
9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine
âBhagyashri V.
10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices
âRituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma
11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir
âSana Shah
12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle
âPratiti Roy
13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time
âSumallya Mukhopadhyay
PART 3: Narratives, Reconstructions, and Representations
14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalitaâs âBir Daimalur Sadhuâ
âJayashree Borah
15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwinâs What the Body Remembers
âSamyukthah A
16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto
âNishat Haider
17 Kalkiâs Ponniyin Selvan: Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel
âCatherine Shilpa X.
18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims
âMuhammad Niyas
19 âDisplacement as an Escape Mechanismâ: Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjeeâs Jasmine
âShrimoyee Chattopadhyay
20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Deviâs Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti
âSomrwita Ghosh
21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction
âVaibhav Iype Parel
Index
This volume will be of interest to researchers, post-graduate students, and academics in memory studies, cultural studies, and heritage and sustainability studies.