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PhD Candidate Angad Singh (English) will present his research on “Obliterated Desires: Interfaith Relationships around India's 1947 Partition” and engage in an audience Q&A.

Learn about his work: In the decades since feminists Kamla Bhasin, Ritu Menon and Urvashi Butalia’s pathbreaking work on incidents of mutilation, rape and abduction around 1947, scholars have developed a “preoccupation with victimized accounts of women during Partition." By reducing the conception of women who lived through 1947 to mere sufferers, academics have erased other varieties of female experiences during the Partition, including ones involving romance and sexual agency. In my project, I focus on these romantic and agential facets of women’s lives in the years around the Partition as well as in the decades preceding this cataclysmic event.

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