![]() ![]() Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, it details the material culture of the Partition of India. It is an attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border during their migration. The project (under the same name) initially began as her MFA dissertation at Concordia University, Montréal, and includes field research in India, Pakistan and England. Writing Īanchal Malhotra's debut book, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory was published by HarperCollins India in 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity. She belongs to the family of Bahrisons booksellers, founded by her paternal grandfather, Balraj Bahri in 1953 in New Delhi. ![]() She completed a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal. She received a BFA in traditional printmaking and art history from Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, where she won the University Medal and Sir Edmund Walker Award for Graduate Studies. Aanchal Malhotra is an Indian historian and writer, best known for her work on oral history and material culture of the partition of India in 1947. ![]()
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