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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description| Book on partition of India}}<br />
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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = Partition Voices: Untold British Stories<br />
| image = Partition Voices (Puri book).png<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = First edition cover<br />
| author = Kavita Puri<br />
| audio_read_by = Kavita Puri<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Partition-Voices-Audiobook/1526616211 |title=Partition Voices (Audiobook) by Kavita Puri |website=[[Audible (store)|Audible]] |accessdate=22 October 2019}}</ref><br />
| cover_artist = <br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| subject = [[Partition of India]]<br />
| genre = Non-fiction<br />
| publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing]]<br />
| pub_date = 11 July 2019<br />
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]])<br />
| pages = 320<br />
| isbn = 978-1-4088-9907-6<br />
}}<br />
'''''Partition Voices: Untold British Stories''''' is a non-fiction book by [[Kavita Puri]], published in 2019 by [[Bloomsbury Publishing]]. The book includes interviews with [[British people]] originating from the Indian subcontinent, who witnessed the 1947 [[partition of India]].<br />
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== Background ==<br />
In 2017, Puri produced a three-part documentary series, ''Partition Voices'', for [[BBC Radio 4]], about witnessed the partition and subsequently migrated to Britain.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2019/aug/02/partition-voices-book-review-indians-in-britain-relive-partition-with-pain-2013064.html|title='Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=2019-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090rrl0|title=BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-09}}</ref> The series won the [[Royal Historical Society]]'s Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.<ref name=":3" /> The book, ''Partition Voices: Untold British Stories'', is based on the series.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/937336/this-collection-of-partition-interviews-gives-us-new-ways-to-look-at-migration-and-refugees|title=This collection of Partition interviews gives us new ways to look at migration and refugees|last=Mishra|first=Anodya|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref> It contains interviews with about two dozen British people who witnessed partition, including the author's father.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-lahore-to-lancashire|title=From Lahore to Lancashire|last=Keay|first=John|date=2019|website=Literary Review|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Ghosh|first=Bishwanath|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/partition-voices-untold-british-stories-review-the-long-shadow-of-partition/article29232929.ece|title='Partition Voices – Untold British Stories' review: The long shadow of Partition|date=2019-08-24|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-09-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
''Partitian Voices'' earned positive critical reviews. In ''[[Literary Review]]'', [[John Keay]] called it a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".<ref name=":0" /> A review in ''[[The Hindu]]'' described it as "an important document of those turbulent times — raw and unbiased,"<ref name=":1" /> while a review from [[Scroll.in]] praised it as "an important milestone in the Partition project because it ascribes importance to the British-South Asian dynamic and talks about the shared history of these two nations without villainising or glorifying either side."<br />
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== Reference ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/partition-voices-9781408899076/&#x20; Official page of book on site of publication house]<br />
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[[Category:2019 non-fiction books]]<br />
[[Category:Bloomsbury Publishing books]]<br />
[[Category:Books about British India]]<br />
[[Category:Non-fiction books about immigration]]<br />
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