Aanchal Malhotra Explained

Aanchal Malhotra
Occupation:Author
Birth Place:New Delhi, India
Alma Mater:Ontario College of Art & Design
Concordia University
Genre:Indian history
Notableworks:
  • The Book of Everlasting Things (2022)
  • In the Language of Remembering (2022)
  • Remnants of a Separation (2017)
  • Remnants of Partition (2019)

Aanchal Malhotra (born 1990) is an Indian oral historian, author and artist, known for her work on the Partition of India. Her research and writings focus on the oral histories of individuals affected by the Partition, capturing their memories and the tangible remnants of that period.[1]

She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Remnants of a Separation and In the Language of Remembering.

Early life and education

Aanchal Malhotra was born in New Delhi, India, in 1990, where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA degree in traditional printmaking and art history from Ontario College Of Art & Design, Toronto, where she won the University Medal and the Sir Edmund Walker Award for Graduate Studies. She completed a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal. She belongs to the family of Bahrisons Booksellers, founded by her paternal grandfather, Balraj Bahri, in 1953 in New Delhi.

Career

Malhotra's debut book Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory[2] was published by HarperCollins India in 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. The project (under the same name) initially began as her MFA dissertation at Concordia University, Montréal, and included field research in India, Pakistan and England.[3] It is an attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border during their migration.[4] [5] [6] Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, it portrays a human history of Partition. It was named a Hindustan Times "India @ 70" book[7] and shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, Shakti Bhatt Prize First Book Award, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, and Hindu Lit for Life Non Fiction Prize.Outside the subcontinent, it was published under the title Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided, by Hurst Publishers in 2019.[8] It was shortlisted by the British Academy for the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.[9] In 2022, it won the US-based Council for Museum Anthropology Book Prize, where the committee said “Malhotra’s concern for detail — such as languages spoken, family members present and their interactions during interviews, setting and mood (as well as her own responses to the stories) — creates a strong moral and ethical underpinning for this work . . . [It] is a model for significant contributions to museum anthropology.” [10] [11]

To mark the 75th anniversary of Partition in 2022, Malhotra published a sequel titled, In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition, which focused on the contemporary relevance of Partition in the everyday lives of Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis.[12]

Her debut novel, The Book of Everlasting Things, was also published in 2022.[13]

In addition to her books, she has been involved in several oral history projects and is an advisor the Project Dastaan peace initiative. In 2017, she co-founded the Museum of Material Memory,[14] a crowdsourced digital repository tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity from the Indian subcontinent. .[15]

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

Anthologies

Awards and honours

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 5 female writers who celebrate womanhood and champion individuality through their works . 2024-06-13 . Harper Bazar . en.
  2. Book: Malhotra, Aanchal . Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory . HarperCollins . 2017 . 978-9352770120 . 1–3.
  3. News: November 15, 2019 . The stories objects tell: What survivors of the Partition of India took with them . CBC.
  4. News: Sridhar . Lalitha . December 2, 2017 . Tangible memories: Tales through objects from across the bloodied border . The Hindu.
  5. News: Jhurani . Aarti . August 18, 2019 . Five heart-wrenching books that explore the partition of India . The National.
  6. Sanyal . Devapriya . October 2019 . Book review: Remnants of a separation . Contemporary South Asia . 27 . 4 . 564 . 10.1080/09584935.2019.1689670.
  7. Web site: 2017-08-14 . India @ 70: 5 books that capture India's freedom struggle, independence and partition . 2019-01-07 . Hindustan Times . en.
  8. Web site: Malhotra . Aanchal . Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided . Hindustan Times.
  9. News: 2019-09-12 . Indian author on British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize shortlist . 2024-06-08 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.
  10. Web site: 2022-10-03 . 2022 Council for Museum Anthropology Awards - Council for Museum Anthropology . 2024-06-08 . museumanthropology.org . en-US.
  11. Web site: Staff . Scroll . 2022-10-17 . Aanchal Malhotra’s ‘Remnants of Partition’ wins US-based Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award . 2024-06-08 . Scroll.in . en.
  12. News: Jalil . Rakhshanda . 2022-06-10 . Review of Aanchal Malhotra's In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition: Conversations about memories . 2022-09-28 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
  13. Web site: 2022-09-26 . Book Review: The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra . 2022-09-28 . www.publishersweekly.com.
  14. Web site: 2022-08-11 . Museum of Material Memory . 2024-06-08 . museumofmaterialmemory.com . en-GB.
  15. News: Sharma . Himini . July 23, 2019 . The Precious Past . The Citizen.
  16. Nonfiction Book Review: Remnants of Partition . Publishers Weekly.
  17. Book: Malhotra, Aanchal . The book of dog . 2022 . HarperCollins Publishers India . 978-93-5489-356-8 . Sodhi . Hemali . Gurugram, Haryana.
  18. Book: Malhotra, Aanchal . Our freedoms: essays and stories from India's best writers . 2021 . Juggernaut . 978-93-5345-145-5 . Roy . Nilanjana S. . New Delhi, India . 10–15.
  19. Book: India at 70: multidisciplinary approaches . 2020 . Routledge . 978-1-000-65177-5 . Maxey . Ruth . Routledge studies in modern history . Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY . McGarr . Paul M..
  20. Web site: Departures in Critical Qualitative Research . 2024-06-07 . dcqr.scholasticahq.com . en.
  21. Book: Looking back: the 1947 Partition of India, 70 years on . 2017 . Orient BlackSwan . 978-93-86689-56-6 . Jalil . Rakhshanda . 1st . Hyderabad, Telangana, India . on1005362462 . Saint . Tarun K. . Sengupta . Debjani.
  22. Web site: India @ 70: 5 books that capture India's freedom struggle, independence and partition . Hindustan Times.
  23. Web site: Staff . Scroll . Sujatha Gidla and Janice Pariat on the longlists of the Tata Literature Live Awards . 2024-06-07 . Scroll.in . en.
  24. Web site: Winners of the 'Valley of Words' Book Awards Announced . 2024-06-07 . The Wire . en.
  25. Web site: Khan . Arman . 2022-12-29 . Top 10 Indian non-fiction books of 2022 . 2024-06-07 . GQ India . en-IN.
  26. Web site: Literary Prize 2024 from La Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Franco-Indienne . Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Franco Indienne.

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