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The Lost Homestead
- My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
- Narrated by: Marina Wheeler
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
On 3rd 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.
As 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.
This 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.
The Lost Homestead 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.
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- BJI
- 13-06-2021
My mother’s story told
I bought this after hearing a radio review . Thank you Marina for writing your story. My mother born in 1933 also grew up in India, but didn’t ever tell us her story. I could not stop listening to yours. For the first time I really understood the history around partition. I am desolate having just finished listening. A beautifully written personal and well written and narrated story. Recommended to all. Listen to Marina narrating her own story.
My aunt Felicity Simmons wrote her family story recently-Stepping stones a passage out of India - after my mother’s death. Not the story my mother sketched to us children. Unfortunately I can’t go back to her for the conversation I didn’t realise I should have had.
Luckily Marina did talk to her mother and gave us this wonderful rich history. Barbara NZ
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