Remembering Partition: 75 Years of Independence-Partition

Date
Thu October 6th 2022, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Event Sponsor
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Center for South Asia
Stanford University Libraries
Location
Green Library, Bing Wing
459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Come join us as we commemorate 75 years since the Partition of the Indian subcontinent with a panel discussion and presentation about the collaboration between The 1947 Partition Archive and Stanford Libraries to make almost 10,000 oral histories of Partition witnesses available online for streaming. The panel will feature local Partition witnesses; Founder of The 1947 Partition Archive, Guneeta Singh Bhalla; Fisher Family Director of Stanford Global Studies and Associate Professor in Theater and Performance Studies, Jisha Menon; and South Asian Studies Curator at Stanford Libraries, C. Ryan Perkins.