Contribute to new SOAS research project: Partition in India and Britain

24 June 2022

As part of the 75th anniversary of the partition, a new collaboration between SOAS, University of London and the Partition Museum (set up by The Arts And Cultural Heritage Trust) has just been launched called, Partition in India and Britain.

Partition in India and Britain is an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded collaboration which aims to explore how the 1947 partition of ‘British India’ affected British and European individuals and families who were stationed in the subcontinent at this time. The project runs from June 2022 to February 2023 and is part of a larger SOAS project exploring the legacies of the partition.

Dr. Eleanor Newbigin will work with researchers and archivists at the Partition Museum and SOAS to build our understanding of this significant time period through interviews and oral histories.

We would like to hear from individuals who experienced partition or whose family may have been based in India before or during that time, and about how the events of 1947 impacted their lives. We are also interested in talking with relatives and family members either about partition itself or how British presence in India may have shaped the wider family in the longer term.

Material collected will inform the project's research and potentially contribute to collections at the Partition Museum in Amritsar and Delhi, India.

If you would like to contribute, or are interested in receiving further information about the project’s research and events please contact PIB@soas.ac.uk before the end of February 2023.