Inherited Memories

Three generations have passed since the Partition of Bengal. The Goethe-Institutes in Kolkata and Dhaka present the five months project "Inherited Memories". It focuses on inherited memories of the third generation post partition, how it affects millions of people still today, shapes their minds and views of "the other Bengal" and what role the culture of memory plays in coming to terms with the passed on traumata.

Some Bengalis have changed their nationality three times or even more often since the Partition — without moving. Listen to this first audio-archive of first-hand narratives of inhabitants of the Chitmahals whose villages became a cue-ball of history.

Longing and Belonging assembles narratives of 1947 partition by a section of Dhaka residents who experienced or were affected by that course of history. The project presents a collection of interviews and visual materials to trace the contours of those negotiations and attachments and to establish, in their fluid state, how a place makes subjects and subjects make a place.

A listing of books, films and various media on the Partition of Bengal.

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