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020			_a9780143441380
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a920 _bANI/IN
100			_aAnis Kidwai
245			_aIN FREEDOM'S SHADE
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260			_aUSA _bPenguin _c2017/01/01
300			_g382
500			_aAppearing for the first time in English translation, In Freedom’s Shade is Anis Kidwai’s moving personal memoir of the first two years of nascent India. It is an activist’s record that reveals both the architecture of the violence during Partition as well as the efforts of ordinary citizens to bring the cycle of reprisal and retribution to a close. Beginning from the murder of her husband in October 1947, with a rare frankness, sympathy and depth of insight, Anis Kidwai tells the stories of the thousands who were driven away from their homelands in Delhi and its neighbouring areas by eviction or abduction or the threat of forced religious conversion. Of historical importance for its account of the activities of the Shanti Dal, the recovery of abducted women and the history of Delhi, In Freedom’s Shade also has an equal contemporary relevance. In part a delineation of the roots of the afflictions that beset Indian society and in part prophetic about the plagues that were to come, Anis Kidwai’s testament is an enduring reminder that memory without truth is futile; only when it serves the objective of reconciliation, does it achieve meaning and significance.
650			_aBiography--Memoirs
650			_aRiots
650			_aSocial workers
650			_aIndia--Delhi
650			_aQidvāʼī, Anis, 1906-1982
650			_aPartition of India (1947)
650			_aCommunalism
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