Partition Voices

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.

Partition Voices: Untold British Stories

First edition cover
Author	Kavita Puri
Audio read by	Kavita Puri[1]
Language	English
Subject	Partition of India
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date	11 July 2019
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	320
ISBN	978-1-4088-9907-6

Background

In 2017, Puri produced a three-part documentary series, Partition Voices, for BBC Radio 4, about witnessed the partition and subsequently migrated to Britain.^[2][3] The series won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.^[2] The book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on the series.^[2][4] It contains interviews with about two dozen British people who witnessed partition, including the author's father.^[5][6]

Reception

Partitian Voices earned positive critical reviews. In Literary Review, John Keay called it a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".^[5] A review in The Hindu described it as "an important document of those turbulent times — raw and unbiased,"^[6] 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."