{"product_id":"the-lost-homestead-my-mother-partition-and-the-punjab-paperback","title":"The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina Wheeler's mother Dip Singh and her Sikh family were forced to flee their home in the Punjab, never to return. Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, she explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, Marina attempts to untangle some of these threads to make sense of her own mother's experience, while weaving her family's story into the broader, still highly contested, history of the region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom. It follows Dip when she marries Marina's English father and leaves India for good, to Berlin, then a divided city, and to Washington DC where the fight for civil rights embraced the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lost Homestead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e touches on global themes that strongly resonate today: political change, religious extremism, migration, minorities, nationhood, identity and belonging. But above all it is about coming to terms with the past, and about the stories we choose to tell about ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32574791090242,"sku":"","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/116_7a87d6d0-681c-471b-a4dd-55c132328f60.jpg?v=1606735919","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/the-lost-homestead-my-mother-partition-and-the-punjab-paperback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}